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Quotes by Educator


"God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance."


"We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful."

"When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change."

"If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing."

"I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting."

"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."

"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."
Life,

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused."

"Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess."

"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."

"Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream."

"It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another."


"As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law."
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