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Pedagogue Inspirational Quotes (9357)

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Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.
Maria Montessori
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Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.
Jacques Maritain
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We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will handle its politics through democratic institutions.
Condoleezza Rice
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A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.
Immanuel Kant
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People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
Leo Tolstoy
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Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.
Tyler Cowen
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The more information that's out there, the greater the returns to just being willing to sit down and apply yourself. Information isn't what's scarce it's the willingness to do something with it.
Tyler Cowen
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Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame.
Tyler Cowen
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We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.
Tyler Cowen
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For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.
Tyler Cowen
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Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.
Tyler Cowen
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If one sentence were to sum up the mechanism driving the Great Stagnation, it is this: Recent and current innovation is more geared to private goods than to public goods. That simple observation ties together the three major macroeconomic events of our time: growing income inequality, stagnant median income, and the financial crisis.
Tyler Cowen
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The hours from 7 to 12 are your time to build for the future before the world descends on you.
Tyler Cowen
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Understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.
Tyler Cowen
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The key questions will be: Are you good at working with intelligent machines or not? Are your skills a complement to the skills of the computer, or is the computer doing better without you? Worst of all, are you competing against the computer?
Tyler Cowen
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My view of the internet is that it is way overrated in what it’s done to date but considerably underrated in what it will do.
Tyler Cowen
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Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.
Tyler Cowen
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Beethoven and Michelangelo, who sold their artworks for profit, were entrepreneurs and capitalists.
Tyler Cowen
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I do not see why I should e’er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.
Robert Frost
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If kids are studying for a test, they're not going to learn anything. We all know that from our own experience.
Noam Chomsky
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Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Rainy day savings are incredibly important, because from time to time, bad things happen. And if you're not prepared for that, it's going to be really terrible.
Dan Ariely
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