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Quotes by Educator


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


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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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


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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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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