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"If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind."
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Wilhelm von Humboldt
"If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind."
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"It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways."
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Dennis Banks
"It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways."
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"I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive."
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Joseph Lancaster
"I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive."
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"And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college."
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John Sexton
"And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college."
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"I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting."
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James Lipton
"I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting."
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"Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process."
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Lawrence Lessig
"Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process."
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"My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects."
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Robert M. Hutchins
"My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects."
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"In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war."
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John Yoo
"In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war."
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"It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor."
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Vinoba Bhave
"It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor."
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"I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer."
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Leland Stanford
"I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer."
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"We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about."
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Anne Sullivan
"We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about."
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"We must reinforce argument with results."
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Booker T. Washington
"We must reinforce argument with results."
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"The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life."
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Leon Kass
"The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life."
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"As Tony Blair has made clear, our fundamental challenge is how to make Europe work better."
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John Hutton
"As Tony Blair has made clear, our fundamental challenge is how to make Europe work better."
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"Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones."
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Ellsworth Huntington
"Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones."
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"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."
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John Sexton
"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."
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"I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them."
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Leon Kass
"I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them."
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"A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them."
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Horace Mann
"A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them."
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"A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals."
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Robert M. Hutchins
"A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals."
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"Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such a love of the tactile and sensuous quality of a black and white silver gelatin print."
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John Sexton
"Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such a love of the tactile and sensuous quality of a black and white silver gelatin print."
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"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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Charles Edward Merriam
"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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"What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation."
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Edward Tufte
"What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation."
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"It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom."
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Charles Fillmore
"It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom."
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"Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own."
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Johann Pestalozzi
"Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own."
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"Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology."
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Lawrence Lessig
"Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology."
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"Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream."
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Robert Brustein
"Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream."
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"It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry."
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
"It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry."
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"A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior."
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Vinoba Bhave
"A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior."
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"One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?"
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Seth Lloyd
"One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?"
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"As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment."
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Temple Grandin
"As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment."
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"God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing."
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William Lyon Phelps
"God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing."
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"It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people."
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Morrie Schwartz
"It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people."
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"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."
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Barbara Coloroso
"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."
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"Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination."
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Marvin Olasky
"Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination."
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"If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free."
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Vinoba Bhave
"If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free."
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"Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free."
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Anne Sullivan Macy
"Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free."
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"Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions."
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Roger Babson
"Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions."
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"We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great."
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
"We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great."
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"A liar should have a good memory."
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Quintilian
"A liar should have a good memory."
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"Truth is the best defense."
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Ward Churchill
"Truth is the best defense."
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"The point of the essay is to change things."
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Edward Tufte
"The point of the essay is to change things."
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"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail."
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Alfred Whitney Griswold
"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail."
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"A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences."
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Edward Tufte
"A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences."
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"As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul."
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Catharine Beecher
"As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul."
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"The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe."
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Catharine Beecher
"The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe."
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"You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind."
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Timothy Leary
"You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind."
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"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."
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Amos Bronson Alcott
"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."
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"And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?"
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Robert Sternberg
"And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?"
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"It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing."
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Tom G. Palmer
"It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing."
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"Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association."
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Leland Stanford
"Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association."
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