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Quotes by Educator
"I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream."
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"We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry."
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"When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty."
9
"Simply by starting to cook again, you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As soon as you cook, you start thinking about ingredients. You start thinking about plants and animals and not the microwave. And you will find that your diet, just by that one simple act, that is greatly improved."
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"The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops."
9
"Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism)."
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
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"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love."
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"I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying."
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"You may not think you eat a lot of corn and soybeans, but you do: 75 percent of the vegetable oils in your diet come from soy (representing 20 percent of your daily calories) and more than half of the sweeteners you consume come from corn (representing around 10 perecent of daily calories)."
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"An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience."
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"A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives."
8
"A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract."
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"If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage."
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"Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest."
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"The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before."
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"It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence."
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"The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended."
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"An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment."
8
"The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor."
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"Until the building of Solomon's temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand."
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"All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed."
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"The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced."
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"This call for a new culture is not a new idea."
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"The government is best which makes itself unnecessary."
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"Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care."
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"Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected should itself provide some reassurance that the EU is trying to reform itself."
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"But we can turn challenges into opportunities if we look outwards to the realities of the global economy and modernise our internal institutions in ways that will equip Europe to meet that challenge and create confidence amongst the public."
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"For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race."
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"A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth."
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"There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research."
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"The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher."
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"Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA."
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