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Lecturer Inspirational Quotes (1888)

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But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land!
Herman Melville
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Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.
Gloria Steinem
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It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.
Emma Goldman
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But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep.
Herman Melville
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You have to make rough decisions with sequencing and work within the limitations of having good audio for 15 minutes on a vinyl side.
Tim Hecker
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One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves.
Gloria Steinem
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Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning.
Marshall Ganz
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Look at what happened in the Past. Learn something valuable from it. Do things differently in the present.
Spencer Johnson
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... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal.
Emma Goldman
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By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he need the help of special scholastic influences. So great are the conquests he has made that one may well say: the child who goes to school at three is already a little man.
Maria Montessori
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Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterwards.
Jessica Stern
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Joseph Campbell
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If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
Gloria Steinem
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No people without a government of their own can expect to be treated on the same level as people of independent sovereign states. It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . .
Kwame Nkrumah
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That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.
Herman Melville
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it's possible to be pro-sex and anti-pornography.
Gloria Steinem
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Youth is the time when hearts are large.
Herman Melville
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Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.
Allen Klein
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
Gloria Steinem
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I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operated on three continents.
Smedley Butler
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History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies.
F. M. Powicke
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It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.
Maria Montessori
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The man's (a heathen south sea islander) a human being, just as I am he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Herman Melville
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Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.
Marshall Ganz
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