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"How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is."
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Wilhelm von Humboldt
"How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is."
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"Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough."
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Mary McLeod Bethune
"Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough."
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"The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings."
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Julius Wellhausen
"The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings."
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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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"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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"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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"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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James Lipton
"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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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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"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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"When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom."
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John Sexton
"When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom."
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"When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in."
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Daniel Greenberg
"When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in."
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"The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity."
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Anna Julia Cooper
"The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity."
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"Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute."
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James E. Rogers
"Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute."
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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."
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Emily Greene Balch
"It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it."
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"There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given."
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Leon Kass
"There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given."
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"A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid."
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Lawrence Lessig
"A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid."
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"Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do."
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Barbara Coloroso
"Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do."
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"Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?"
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Max Muller
"Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?"
Sin,
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"Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned."
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John Holt
"Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned."
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"If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow."
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William Lyon Phelps
"If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow."
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"When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal."
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Leland Stanford
"When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal."
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"It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own."
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Julius Wellhausen
"It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own."
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"Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence."
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Felix Adler
"Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence."
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"Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused."
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Freda Adler
"Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused."
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"Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess."
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John W. Gardner
"Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess."
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"There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies."
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Leon Kass
"There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies."
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"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."
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William Vickrey
"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."
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"Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream."
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Robert Brustein
"Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream."
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"It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry."
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
"It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry."
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"The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend."
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John Hutton
"The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend."
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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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Alan Dundes
"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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"Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind."
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Charles Fillmore
"Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind."
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"Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do."
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Daniel Greenberg
"Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do."
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"God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing."
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William Lyon Phelps
"God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing."
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"There's always merit to having a debate."
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Ward Churchill
"There's always merit to having a debate."
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"If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available."
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Seth Lloyd
"If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available."
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"The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt."
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William Vickrey
"The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt."
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"In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being."
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John Sexton
"In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being."
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"But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views."
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Stephen Cohen
"But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views."
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"It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters."
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Leon Kass
"It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters."
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"What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance."
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Barbara Coloroso
"What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance."
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"History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another."
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Ellsworth Huntington
"History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another."
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"The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically."
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Emily Greene Balch
"The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically."
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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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Norman Lamm
"As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law."
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