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Quotes by Educator
"Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark."
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"The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant."
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"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show."
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"Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative."
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"The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible."
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"From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom."
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"I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them."
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"Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused."
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"So that we focus not on competing visions for Europe but on what Europe can do to improve economic growth, to give us a cleaner environment, to create more jobs, to make us more secure."
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"American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so."
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"This call for a new culture is not a new idea."
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"From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor."
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"I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street."
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"On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold."
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"But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you."
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"Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada."
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"Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented."
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"I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration."
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"Cooking is all about connection, I've learned, between us and other species, other times, other cultures (human and microbial both), but, most important, other people. Cooking is one of the more beautiful forms that human generosity takes; that much I sort of knew. But the very best cooking, I discovered, is also a form of intimacy."
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"A program to make municipal composting of food and yard waste mandatory and then distributing the compost free to area farmers would shrink America's garbage heap, cut the need for irrigation and fossil-fuel fertilizers in agriculture, and improve the nutritional quality of the American diet."
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"What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats."
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"She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect."
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"For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late."
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"Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best."
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