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"The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true."

"The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true."

Phillip E. Johnson, American Educator

Science, Knowledge, Question, Theory

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"Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability."

"Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability."

Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese Educator

Art, Work, Ability, Expression

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

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

Ferdinand De Saussure, Swiss Educator

Creativity, Ideas, Sound

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"I think our vision heretofore has been and should continue to be to have Cardozo be the kind of law school that we can be proud of. I would like to see it gain recognition as one of the three best law schools in New York City."

"I think our vision heretofore has been and should continue to be to have Cardozo be the kind of law school that we can be proud of. I would like to see it gain recognition as one of the three best law schools in New York City."

Norman Lamm, American Educator

Vision, Gain, Law, School

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"Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth."

"Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth."

Dennis Banks, American Educator

Family, Mother, People, Earth, Healing

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"That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence."

"That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence."

Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish Educator

Intelligence, Hate

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"The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge."

"The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge."

Seymour Papert, South African Educator

Knowledge, Invention

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"Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time."

"Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time."

Timothy Leary, American Educator

Time, Soul, Learning

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"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."

"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."

Robert Sternberg, American Educator

Consequence, Consequences, Disability, Example, Learning

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"When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away."

"When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away."

Robert M. Hutchins, American Educator

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"Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind."

"Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind."

Charles Fillmore, American Educator

Spiritual, Words

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"One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me."

"One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me."

John Sexton, American Educator

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"Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions."

"Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions."

Vinoba Bhave, Indian Educator

Life, Actions, Play

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"Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine."

"Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine."

Amos Bronson Alcott, American Educator

Conversation, Debate

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"In the United States, securities markets are much more developed than they are in Europe."

"In the United States, securities markets are much more developed than they are in Europe."

Robert C. Solomon, American Educator

Geography, Europe, States, United

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"And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights."

"And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights."

Carol Bellamy, American Educator

Dignity, Discrimination, Rights, Practice

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"Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not."

"Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not."

James Lipton, American Educator

Fun, Funny, Comedians

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"The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure."

"The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure."

William Vickrey, Canadian Educator

Policy, Effect, Interest, Pressure

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"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."

"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."

Kingman Brewster, Jr., American Educator

Ambiguity, Kingman Brewster

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"We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three years in a master's degree program, and we want them - to expose them to everything."

"We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three years in a master's degree program, and we want them - to expose them to everything."

James Lipton, American Educator

Actor, Actors, America, Drama, School

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"When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then."

"When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then."

Dennis Banks, American Educator

Poverty, Spiritual

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"Man is a messenger who forgot the message."

"Man is a messenger who forgot the message."

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish Educator

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"Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience."

"Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience."

Felix Adler, German Educator

Experience, Intellect

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"Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still."

"Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still."

Robert Sternberg, American Educator

Commitment, Intimacy, Passion

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"On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States."

"On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States."

Robert C. Solomon, American Educator

Finance, Financial, Banks, Difference, Europe

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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."

"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."

Seth Lloyd, American Educator

Society, Science, England, Information

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"I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously."

"I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously."

Juan Cole, American Educator

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"The universe is an intelligence test."

"The universe is an intelligence test."

Timothy Leary, American Educator

Intelligence, Universe

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"Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it."

"Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it."

Robert C. Solomon, American Educator

Love, Language, World

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"No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study."

"No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study."

Phillip E. Johnson, American Educator

Science, God, Doubt, Scientists

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"Strategy 101 is about choices: You can't be all things to all people."

"Strategy 101 is about choices: You can't be all things to all people."

Michael Porter, American Educator

People, Strategy

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"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."

"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."

Horace Mann, American Educator

Education, Safety

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"Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case."

"Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case."

John Rawls, American Educator

Life, Feelings, Animals, Compassion

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"We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism."

"We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism."

Paul Eldridge, American Educator

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"It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it."

"It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it."

Emily Greene Balch, American Educator

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"He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor."

"He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor."

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish Educator

19

"Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk."

"Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk."

Bill Nye, American Educator

Transition, Spring, Talk, Winter

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"Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed."

"Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed."

Marvin Olasky, American Educator

Harm, Humility, Prudence

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"Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?"

"Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?"

Max Muller, German Educator

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"But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick."

"But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick."

Paul Farmer, American Educator

Health, Care, Justice, Medicine

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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."

"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."

Michael Porter, American Educator

Technology, Leader, Goal, Problems

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"If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible."

"If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible."

William Lyon Phelps, American Educator

People, Beliefs, Certainty, Sense

18

"Currently a level of unemployment of 7 percent or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation."

"Currently a level of unemployment of 7 percent or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation."

William Vickrey, Canadian Educator

Economy, Inflation, Unemployment

18

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

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

William Vickrey, Canadian Educator

Economy, Economics

18

"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."

"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."

Alan Dundes, American Educator

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"Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning."

"Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning."

Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish Educator

Art, Meaning, Sensations

18

"The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil."

"The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil."

Maria Montessori, Italian Educator

Creativity, Idea, Difference, Evil, First

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"A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity."

"A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity."

Edward Tufte, American Educator

Fame, Celebrity

18

"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."

"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."

John Sexton, American Educator

Photography, Light, Passion, Today

18

"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."

"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."

D. Elton Trueblood, American Educator

Life, Man, Meaning, Plants

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