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Quotes by Educator

"If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age."

"Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible."

"We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being."

"Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he "lives" his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy."

"It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable and achievable, that measurement regimes are proportionate and that the targets take full account of the other reforms that are under way."

"There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government."

"Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe."

"America is the last great goal of these migrations."

"She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes."

"So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland will have to have a deficit in its overall balance of payments."

"No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately."

"Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message."

"While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change."

"Government regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa."

"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."

"Every day between now and his slaughter in six months, 534 [Pollan's steer] will convert 32 pounds of feed into four pounds of gain- new muscle, fat, and bone."

"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."

"ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business."

"When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too."

"I think cooking is really key because it's the only way you're going to take back control of your diet from the corporations who want to cook for us. The fact is, so far, corporations don't cook that well. They tend to use too much salt, fat, and sugar - much more than you would ever use at home."

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