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Quotes by Educator
"And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey Peninsula where I still live today."
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"Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy."
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"In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point."
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"If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams."
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"Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems."
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"The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking."
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"I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns."
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"The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway."
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"The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science."
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"Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons."
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"Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time."
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"If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing."
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"If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming."
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"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."
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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."
Life,
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"As a university, we're not focused on bringing about huge reforms - that's not our role."
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"At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live."
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"If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain."
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"Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement."
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"The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need."
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"When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions."
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"I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well."
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"For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom."
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"Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top."
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