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Quotes by Educator
"In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas."
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"For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe."
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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."
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"Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy."
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"Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business."
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"Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about."
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"I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility."
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"The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty ."
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"No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction."
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"One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God."
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"The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway."
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"She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes."
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"Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present."
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"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."
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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."
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"Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit."
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"Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can."
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"As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action."
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"He's thinking more with his heart than with his brain."
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"There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth."
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"The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again."
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"If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to sex."
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"It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here."
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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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"If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real."
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"It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'"
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