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Quotes by Educator

"Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow."

"If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful."

"Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact."

"The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior."

"Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top."

"And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases."

"That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy."

"Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money."

"During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism."

"When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom."

"To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice."

"In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor."

"The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation."

"A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs."

"The dollar went up some eighty percent in real terms as I recall now or something like that - from '80 to '85."
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"It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!"

"So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera."

"Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have."

"All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts."

"That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs."

"He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography."

"I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families."

"If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens."

"We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist."

"It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs."

"The reserve currency role seems to add prestige to an area and some people in Europe have talked about the desirability of the euro becoming an international reserve currency."

"The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity."


"A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas."
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