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Quotes by Educator
"And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation."
"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."
"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
"Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition."
"The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression."
"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."
"Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level."
"Currently a level of unemployment of 7 percent or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation."
"What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it."
"A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity."
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"A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences."
"And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again."
"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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"The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years."
"The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account."
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"The majority is still at the General's disposal."
"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."
"American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so."
"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."
"Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation."
"For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom."
"What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats."
"When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions."
"In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics."
"The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics."
"It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent."
"Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar."
"Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages."
"Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008."
"No state legislature ever built a great university."
"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."
"Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect."
"The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies."
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