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Quotes by Educator
"On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do."
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"Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true."
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"The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past."
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"Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race."
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"The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual."
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"Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible."
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"There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government."
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"The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy."
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"It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?"
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"No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination."
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"The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works."
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"Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008."
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"We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours."
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"But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power."
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"The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies."
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"Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions."
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"If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself."
Will,
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"I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not adequately responded to their desires to become more educated and more productive citizens."
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"All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League."
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"The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them."
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"I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life."
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"No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him."
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"We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index."
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"We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience."
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"I'm prepared to fight as hard as I can against unions entering the University on behalf of our students."
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"Creativity seems to emerge from multiple experiences, coupled with a well-supported development of personal resources, including a sense of freedom to venture beyond the known."
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"In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn."
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"Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses."
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"People want riches; they need fulfillment."
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