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Quotes by Educator
"Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don't realize it when we sit down to eat, but that is our most profound engagement with the rest of nature."
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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."
10
"It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian."
10
"The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness."
10
"The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children."
10
"New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work."
10
"Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well."
10
"The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land."
10
"As long as one egg looks pretty much like another, all the chickens like chicken, and beef beef, the substitution of quantity for quality will go unnoticed by most consumers, but it is becoming increasingly apparent to anyone with an electron microscope or a mass spectrometer that, truly, this is not the same food."
10
"The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity."
10
"There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important."
10
"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."
10
"The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God."
10
"Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement."
10
"What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before."
10
"However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science."
9
"Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess."
9
"Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity."
9
"In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed."
9
"And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting."
9
"Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do."
9
"I use my mind to solve problems and invent things."
9
"A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences."
9
"Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds."
9
"It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice."
9
"We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours."
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