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"This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics."
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William Vickrey
"This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics."
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"Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape."
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Frank Moore Colby
"Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape."
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"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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Seth Lloyd
"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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"History never looks like history when you are living through it."
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John W. Gardner
"History never looks like history when you are living through it."
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"The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you."
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Morrie Schwartz
"The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you."
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"Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends."
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Leland Stanford
"Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends."
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"The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true."
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Catharine Beecher
"The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true."
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"A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity."
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Edward Tufte
"A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity."
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"For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act."
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Paul Farmer
"For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act."
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"Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire."
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Leland Stanford
"Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire."
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"Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation."
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John Sexton
"Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation."
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"Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity."
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Vartan Gregorian
"Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity."
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"In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one."
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Leon Kass
"In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one."
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"Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free."
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Anne Sullivan Macy
"Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free."
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"We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards."
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John Hutton
"We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards."
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"Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist."
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Mary McLeod Bethune
"Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist."
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"I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families."
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William P. Leahy
"I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families."
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"Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again."
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Lawrence Lessig
"Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again."
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"As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul."
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Catharine Beecher
"As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul."
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"Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine."
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Amos Bronson Alcott
"Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine."
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"Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century."
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John Hutton
"Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century."
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"In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed."
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John Rawls
"In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed."
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"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."
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Maria Montessori
"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."
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"A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit."
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D. Elton Trueblood
"A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit."
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"Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them."
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Daniel Greenberg
"Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them."
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"The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century."
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William Lyon Phelps
"The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century."
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"The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."
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James Baldwin
"The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."
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"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."
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William Lyon Phelps
"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."
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"Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life."
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Charles Vest
"Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life."
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"In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion."
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Leland Stanford
"In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion."
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"The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another."
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Seth Low
"The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another."
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"On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold."
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Stephen Cohen
"On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold."
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"These are some of the things for which we believe the American people owe no little gratitude to the Dutch; and these are the things for which today, speaking in the name of the American people, we venture to express their heartfelt thanks."
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Seth Low
"These are some of the things for which we believe the American people owe no little gratitude to the Dutch; and these are the things for which today, speaking in the name of the American people, we venture to express their heartfelt thanks."
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"Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember."
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Anne Sullivan
"Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember."
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"The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands."
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Seth Low
"The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands."
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"Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change."
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Daniel Greenberg
"Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change."
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"The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years."
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Leland Stanford
"The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years."
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"We cannot fight new wars with old weapons."
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Vinoba Bhave
"We cannot fight new wars with old weapons."
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"The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish."
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Michael Porter
"The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish."
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"Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God."
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God."
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"God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance."
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
"God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance."
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"We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful."
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Anne Sullivan Macy
"We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful."
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"When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change."
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Robert Anthony
"When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change."
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"Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts."
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Marvin Olasky
"Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts."
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"If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing."
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Miguel de Unamuno
"If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing."
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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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Phillip E. Johnson
"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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"I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat."
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Paul Farmer
"I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat."
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"Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity."
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Horace Mann
"Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity."
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"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge."
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge."
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"A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands."
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William Lyon Phelps
"A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands."
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