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Quotes by Educator
"And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases."
44
"I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions."
44
"Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy."
44
"If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem."
44
"We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way."
44
"It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives."
44
"Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions."
44
"When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it."
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"The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms."
44
"If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?"
God,
44
"Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them."
44
"As a university, we're not focused on bringing about huge reforms - that's not our role."
44
"He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor."
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"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him."
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"To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect."
44
"It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working."
43
"Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex."
43
"From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment."
43
"I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it."
43
"When I teach people, I marry them."
43
"The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure."
43
"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."
43
"There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all."
43
"Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information."
43
"A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope."
43
"We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps."
43
"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."
43
"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."
43
"To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice."
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