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Quotes by Educator

"The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive."

"Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken."
Past,

"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."

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

"If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not."

"I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress."

"So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get."

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

"IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle."

"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all."

"Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more."

"Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former."

"The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything.""

"Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen."

"What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights."

"Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration."

"If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind."

"The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway."

"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes."

"Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now."

"I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer."

"Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves."

"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."

"This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics."

"Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape."

"One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?"
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