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"Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides."
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Amos Bronson Alcott
"Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides."
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"Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses."
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Charles William Eliot
"Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses."
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"The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account."
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Leland Stanford
"The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account."
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"Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries."
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Robert C. Solomon
"Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries."
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"We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale."
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John Hope
"We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale."
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"A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages."
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John Yoo
"A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages."
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"Autism is an extremely variable disorder."
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Temple Grandin
"Autism is an extremely variable disorder."
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"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company."
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Booker T. Washington
"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company."
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"But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it."
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Robert Sternberg
"But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it."
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"Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations."
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Ellsworth Huntington
"Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations."
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"If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities."
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Lawrence Lessig
"If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities."
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"After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left."
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Morrie Schwartz
"After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left."
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"There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen."
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Leland Stanford
"There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen."
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"Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession."
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Kingman Brewster, Jr.
"Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession."
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"It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for."
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Benjamin E. Mays
"It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for."
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"I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences."
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Marvin Olasky
"I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences."
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"This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion."
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Joseph Lancaster
"This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion."
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"If we are to attract private investment, if we are to be able to make the legislature feel the moneys from taxpayers are being used properly, we must be ever vigilant of the duty to efficiently use all funds we receive."
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James E. Rogers
"If we are to attract private investment, if we are to be able to make the legislature feel the moneys from taxpayers are being used properly, we must be ever vigilant of the duty to efficiently use all funds we receive."
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"So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically."
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Lawrence Lessig
"So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically."
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"On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold."
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Stephen Cohen
"On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold."
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"The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm."
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Edward Tufte
"The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm."
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"The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."
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Horace Mann
"The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."
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"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view."
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Robert M. Hutchins
"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view."
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"Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies."
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Howard Thurman
"Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies."
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"But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency."
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John Hutton
"But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency."
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"Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence."
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Norman Lamm
"Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence."
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"While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."
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Amos Bronson Alcott
"While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."
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"At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence."
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Booker T. Washington
"At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence."
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"A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness."
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Joseph Lancaster
"A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness."
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"The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon."
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Felix Adler
"The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon."
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"These are some of the things for which we believe the American people owe no little gratitude to the Dutch; and these are the things for which today, speaking in the name of the American people, we venture to express their heartfelt thanks."
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Seth Low
"These are some of the things for which we believe the American people owe no little gratitude to the Dutch; and these are the things for which today, speaking in the name of the American people, we venture to express their heartfelt thanks."
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"As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly."
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Sylvia Ashton-Warner
"As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly."
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"It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort."
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Quintilian
"It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort."
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"Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects."
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Leon Kass
"Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects."
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"I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others."
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Edward Tufte
"I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others."
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"Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented."
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Michael Porter
"Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented."
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"I want, in this school, that one sex shall have equal advantage with the other, and I want particularly that females shall have open to them every employment suitable to their sex."
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Leland Stanford
"I want, in this school, that one sex shall have equal advantage with the other, and I want particularly that females shall have open to them every employment suitable to their sex."
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"Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology."
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Emily Greene Balch
"Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology."
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"And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation."
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Julius Wellhausen
"And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation."
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"For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn't rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when the Americans moved in March and April of 2003."
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Juan Cole
"For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn't rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when the Americans moved in March and April of 2003."
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"In this business you either sink or swim or you don't."
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David Smith
"In this business you either sink or swim or you don't."
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"Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both."
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Horace Mann
"Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both."
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"But effective regulation at the European Union level can make a massive contribution to achieving our shared goals of improving competitiveness, jobs and growth."
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John Hutton
"But effective regulation at the European Union level can make a massive contribution to achieving our shared goals of improving competitiveness, jobs and growth."
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"No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him."
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Charles Kendall Adams
"No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him."
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"I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood."
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Max Muller
"I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood."
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"I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat."
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Paul Farmer
"I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat."
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"The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good."
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Betty Dodson
"The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good."
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"Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but all cultures (save the Eskimo) sanction at least one such plant and, just as invariably, strenuously forbid certain others. Along with the temptation seems to come the taboo."
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Michael Pollan
"Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but all cultures (save the Eskimo) sanction at least one such plant and, just as invariably, strenuously forbid certain others. Along with the temptation seems to come the taboo."
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"My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!"
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Anne Sullivan
"My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!"
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"The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself."
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Charles William Eliot
"The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself."
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