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Educator Inspirational Quotes (2244)

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From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.
Yehuda Amichai
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And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
Yehuda Amichai
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The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.
Yehuda Amichai
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It was not an adventure it was my life.
Yehuda Amichai
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My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.
Yehuda Amichai
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai
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I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
Yehuda Amichai
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Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.
Yehuda Amichai
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I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.
Yehuda Amichai
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The very point of Labor's Zionist program is to have as much land as possible and as few Arabs as possible!
Yitzhak Navon
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One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.
Fred Rogers
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Life is not about how many times you fall down. It's about how many times you get back up.
Jaime Escalante
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To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.
Robert M. Hutchins
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So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.
Gordon Gee
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Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
Abraham Flexner
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A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.
Abraham Flexner
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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
Abraham Flexner
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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
Abraham Flexner
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We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.
Abraham Flexner
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice we cannot have both.
Abraham Flexner
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[...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves
Laura Esquivel
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... danger was always at its most lethal when disguised as respectability.
Susan Moody
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Poetry and I fit together. I can't imagine being without it... It is food and drink, it is all seasons, it is the stuff of all existence.
Lee Bennett Hopkins
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You white folks have long been eating the white meat of the chicken. We Negroes are now ready for some of the white meat instead of the dark meat.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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