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Quotes by Educator
"Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen."
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"Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons."
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"I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting."
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"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."
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"The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression."
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"All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts."
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"It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing."
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"In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor."
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"This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics."
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"Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill."
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"And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights."
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"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."
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"We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism."
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"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."
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"If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems."
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"We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains."
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"Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."
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"Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else."
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"During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism."
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"Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow."
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"The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame."
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"If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research."
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"As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law."
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"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."
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"We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist."
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"All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species."
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"Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there."
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"The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world."
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"We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses."
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"A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior."
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"Those who give of themselves rarely regret it."
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