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Quotes by Educator

"Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds."

"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."

"The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first."

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

"If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens."

"Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art."

"Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services."

"Until the building of Solomon's temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand."

"Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others."

"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."

"The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does."

"All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed."

"And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility."


"It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?"

"As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action."

"I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian."

"We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist."

"In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children."

"He who fears is literally delivered to destruction."

"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?"

"More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU."

"Our aim, during our Presidency in the next six months will be to lead this challenge, to show that Europe can function in a mature and responsible way, to start delivering tangible results that show we are taking people's concerns seriously."

"But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power."

"If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe."

"Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans."
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