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Quotes by Educator

"Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there."

"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 part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness."

"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."

"And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation."

"Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost."


"A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas."

"Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present."

"When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers."

"The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority."

"If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."

"The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance."

"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."

"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."

"Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing."

"It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian."

"We must reinforce argument with results."

"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."

"The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land."

"If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful."

"So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement."

"Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact."

"The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice."

"The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness."

"The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible."

"It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions."
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