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Lecturer Inspirational Quotes (1888)

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If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!
Maria Montessori
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It is easy enough to vote right and be consistently with the majority. But it is more often more important to be ahead of the majority and this means being willing to cut the first furrow in the ground and stand alone for a while if necessary.
Patsy Mink
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It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.
Herman Melville
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The most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
Emma Goldman
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Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Of all things love is the most potent.
Maria Montessori
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Pain is the difference between what is and what I want it to be.
Spencer Johnson
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Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?
Herman Melville
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Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.
J. William Fulbright
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When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.
Roddy Doyle
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Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!
Gloria Steinem
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Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.
Herman Melville
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There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.
Gloria Steinem
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We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
J. William Fulbright
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In the past the man has been first in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men are not needed. On the contrary, the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men and under systematic management the best man rises to the top more certainly and more rapidly than ever before.
Frederick Winslow Taylor
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One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator.
Susan Blackmore
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There are no language barriers when you are smiling.
Allen Klein
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Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant I act under orders.
Herman Melville
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Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.
Maria Montessori
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For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead: (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, nce in a while, pride and (3) it's frightening.
Gloria Steinem
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Music expresses feeling and thought, without language it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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