Quotes by Educator

"You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

Science, Apples

"The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."

William Lyon Phelps, American Educator

Respect, Gentleman, Service

"In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks."

William Lyon Phelps, American Educator

Business, Company

"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."

William Lyon Phelps, American Educator

Reading, Forget

"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."

William Lyon Phelps, American Educator

Persistence, First, Succeed

"If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet."

William Lyon Phelps, American Educator

Time, Rain, Running, World

"The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves."

Tom G. Palmer, American Educator

Documentation, First, Name

"Obligations may be universal or particular."

Tom G. Palmer, American Educator

Obligation, May

"If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?"

Tom G. Palmer, American Educator

Authority, Obligation, Right

"Those who give of themselves rarely regret it."

Marvin Olasky, American Educator

Generosity, Regret

"The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong."

Marvin Olasky, American Educator

Tolerance, Religious, Wrong

"That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off of others should not be welcomed."

Marvin Olasky, American Educator

Immigration, America

"I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in."

Marvin Olasky, American Educator

Indecision, Right

"Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS."

Marvin Olasky, American Educator

Military, African, Children, Old

"I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room."

Bill Nye, American Educator

Passion, Airplanes, Living, Moon, Space

"Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk."

Bill Nye, American Educator

Transition, Spring, Talk, Winter

"Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child."

Max Muller, German Educator

Maturity, Strangers

"Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world."

Maria Montessori, Italian Educator

Education, Potential, Will, World

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"Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star."

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian Educator

Nature, Twilight

1

"It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry."

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian Educator

Worry,

"As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted."

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian Educator

Appearance, Originality

"Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America."

Charles Edward Merriam, American Educator

Corruption, America, Chicago

"It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions."

Charles Edward Merriam, American Educator

Politics, Drama

"It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for."

Benjamin E. Mays, American Educator

Purpose, Disgrace, Stars

"The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend."

John Hutton, English Educator

Government, Excellence, Public, Service

"I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air."

George Combe, American Educator

Freedom, Americans, First, Ladies, Gentlemen

"Technology makes the world a new place."

Shoshana Zuboff, American Educator

Technology, World

"The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body."

Shoshana Zuboff, American Educator

Life, Behavior, Body

"Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice."

Shoshana Zuboff, American Educator

Choice, Choices, Practice

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

Shoshana Zuboff, American Educator

Technology, Work, Thought, Action

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"Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised."

Shoshana Zuboff, American Educator

Experience, Awareness, Old, Question

"Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating."

John Yoo, American Educator

Benefits, Example, Name, Rank

"Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks."

John Yoo, American Educator

Future,

"We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war."

John Yoo, American Educator

War, Soldiers, State, Theater

"A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages."

John Yoo, American Educator

Decision-Making, Decision, Court

"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."

John Yoo, American Educator

War, Being, Climate, Laws

"This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law."

John Yoo, American Educator

Law,

"We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good."

Cornel West, American Educator

Time, Community, Sense

"The problem is we need much more moral content."

Cornel West, American Educator

Content,

"All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship."

Julius Wellhausen, German Educator

Unity, Worship, Writers

"The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship."

Julius Wellhausen, German Educator

Law, Unity, Worship

"The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority."

Julius Wellhausen, German Educator

Authority, Force, Importance, Legislation

"The representation of the tabernacle arose out of the temple of Solomon as its root, in dependence on the sacred ark, for which there is early testimony, and which in the time of David, and also before it, was sheltered by a tent."

Julius Wellhausen, German Educator

Time, Temple, Dependence

"The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings."

Julius Wellhausen, German Educator

Age, Books, End, Judges

"The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there."

Julius Wellhausen, German Educator

God, Living, Old

"It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own."

Julius Wellhausen, German Educator

Success, Disguise, Opinions

"From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, - and to a certain extent with justice."

Julius Wellhausen, German Educator

History, Temple, Building, Justice

"For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy."

Julius Wellhausen, German Educator

History, Temple, Building, Israel

"A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah."

Julius Wellhausen, German Educator

Fact, Facts, Judgment

"As we learn from the New Testament, the Jews and the Samaritans in the days of Jesus were not agreed on the question which was the proper place of worship, but that there could be only one was taken to be as certain as the unity of God Himself."

Julius Wellhausen, German Educator

God, Newtestament, Question, Unity

"You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned."

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"The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."

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"In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks."

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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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"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."

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"If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet."

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"The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves."

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"Obligations may be universal or particular."

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"If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?"

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"Those who give of themselves rarely regret it."

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"The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong."

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"That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off of others should not be welcomed."

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"I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in."

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"Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS."

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"I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room."

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"Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk."

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"Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child."

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"Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world."

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"Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star."

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"It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry."

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"As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted."

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"Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America."

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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."

​

"It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for."

​

"The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend."

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"I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air."

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"Technology makes the world a new place."

​

"The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body."

​

"Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice."

​

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

1

"Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised."

​

"Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating."

​

"Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks."

​

"We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war."

​

"A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages."

​

"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."

​

"This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law."

​

"We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good."

​

"The problem is we need much more moral content."

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"All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship."