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Quotes by Educator
"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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"Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top."
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"As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the development and distribution of our culture."
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"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."
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"The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art."
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"It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit."
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"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."
18
"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."
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"Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more."
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"In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord."
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"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."
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"In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated."
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"So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving."
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"It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives."
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"Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions."
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"There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more."
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"A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness."
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"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."
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"It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that."
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"The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences."
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"Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare."
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"It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time."
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"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."
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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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"I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion, keep you from eating, which I liked to do."
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