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Quotes by Educator

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


"People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved."

"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."

"All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so."

"Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements."

"Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association."


"The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it."

"I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully."

"That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off of others should not be welcomed."


"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."

"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."

"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."


"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 student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration."

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

"Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money."

"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."

"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."

"New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work."


"The dollar went up some eighty percent in real terms as I recall now or something like that - from '80 to '85."
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"It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!"


"Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have."

"History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes."

"The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do."

"True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant."
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