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Quotes by Educator
"All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species."
18
"Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."
18
"What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College."
18
"Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken."
Past,
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"Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily."
18
"It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual."
18
"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."
18
"There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls."
18
"To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence."
18
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
18
"Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child."
18
"When we arrived in Japan in 1988, we were not prepared for the overwhelming support shown to us."
18
"Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now."
18
"No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well."
18
"History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes."
17
"People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved."
17
"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."
17
"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."
17
"In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north."
17
"It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit."
17
"The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does."
17
"It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working."
17
"From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment."
17
"To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don't think that's based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve."
17
"The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it."
17
"There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy life."
17
"It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches."
17
"We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad."
17
"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."
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