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Quotes by Educator
"In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown."
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"There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth."
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"The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments."
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"No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately."
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"While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change."
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"The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday."
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"We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index."
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"If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?"
God,
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"Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded."
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"All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of."
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"Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about."
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"In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed."
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"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."
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"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
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"For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe."
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"Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear."
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"As a university, we're not focused on bringing about huge reforms - that's not our role."
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"Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life."
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"During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism."
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"We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about."
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"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else."
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"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year."
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"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."
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"Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well."
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"You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well."
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