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Quotes by Educator

"For too long nurses have been undervalued, restricted in what they could do, with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long, nurses have endured a pay system that has held them back - both professionally as well as financially."

"One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal."

"We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism."

"This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community."

"I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest."

"The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant."

"No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well."

"The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism."

"We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics."

"We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience."

"You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done."

"When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior."

"The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group."

"I'm prepared to fight as hard as I can against unions entering the University on behalf of our students."


"We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties."

"When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty."

"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."

"A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals."


"The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God."


"As far as YU faculty and students are concerned, the love for Israel is very strong. Probably about three thousand of our graduates have settled in Israel. On average, every year 650 male and female students study in Israel for a minimum of one year."

"In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making."

"What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation."

"When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can."

"What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before."

"The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world."


"I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them."

"To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination."

"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him."

"The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works."

"It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here."


"We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains."

"The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world."

"In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled."
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