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Quotes by Educator
"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."
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"The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action."
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"The company without a strategy is willing to try anything."
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"All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species."
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"If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams."
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"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
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"That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy."
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"He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor."
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"Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement."
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"The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior."
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"A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique."
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"And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases."
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"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
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"Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily."
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"Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it."
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"The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need."
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"It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!"
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"Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."
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"Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience."
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"Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else."
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"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
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"Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money."
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"The dollar went up some eighty percent in real terms as I recall now or something like that - from '80 to '85."
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"If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?"
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"Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can."
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"The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues."
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