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University Teacher Inspirational Quotes (46385)

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I ask the GOP leaders also to stand up for the integrity of the American electoral process.
Tim Kaine
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For the Christian, every tragedy is ultimately a blessing, or God is a liar.
R. C. Sproul
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
Edward de Bono
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Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.
Hu Shih
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We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel.
David Hilbert
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The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.
Vannevar Bush
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It was through the Second World War that most of us suddenlyappreciated for the first time the power of man's concentrated efforts to understand and control the forces of nature.We were appalled by what we saw.
Vannevar Bush
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Give these people money, let them play, and they'll come up with something.
Vannevar Bush
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A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.
Vannevar Bush
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I say, technically, I don't think anyone in the world knows how to do such a thing. and I feel confident it will not be done for a very long period to come. I think we can leave that out of our thinking. I wish the American public would leave that out of their thinking.
Vannevar Bush
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The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
Vannevar Bush
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The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
Vannevar Bush
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A belief may be larger than a fact.
Vannevar Bush
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Worrying about tomorrow is the best way to screw up today.
Denis Leary
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The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Anarchism is surprisingly effective in solving actual problems largely because anarchists have thought a lot about solving actual problems on a micro level in ways that other political ideologies don't really feel they have to until after they seize state power.
David Graeber
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And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.
Robert Scheer
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.
Anna Deavere Smith
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When I was a kid, my grandfather said that if you say a word often enough, it becomes you. Thinking of that later in life gave me this idea that I could try to become America by learning the words of people from many aspects of the country.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.
Anna Deavere Smith
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I think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
Anna Deavere Smith
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I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
Anna Deavere Smith
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