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tragedy life-is lows
The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim. Benjamin E. Mays
temperance
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness. Benjamin Haydon
thinking ideas giving
The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it. Benjamin Walker
thinking class use
I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?
teacher art odds
I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts' academy in Michigan, who taught me the importance of storytelling, and I really responded to that. It seemed like a long shot, but I always play the long odds.
time mean essence
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it. Benjamin Spock
teacher children mean
Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision of their parents and teachers. I don't mean that trust without clear guidance is enough, but guidance without trust is worthless.
teamwork may quiet
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
truth wish conviction
Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth. Bertrand Russell
two justice progress
The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress. It's coexistence or no existence.
teacher character church
When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, the mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see experiments performed, since the results could be vouched for by their teachers, all of them of the highest character, and many of them clergymen of the Church of England.
thinking support intelligence
If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the argument goes against you. But if your belief is based upon faith, you will realize that argument is useless, and will therefore resort to force either in the form of persecution or by stunting or distorting the minds of the young in what is called 'education.'
thinking intelligence sometimes
I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.
time neglect duty
All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.
time lying thinking
The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.
time realizing gates
To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.
trouble reason authority
As soon as we abandon our reason and are content to rely on authority, there is no end to our troubles.
taken imagination alternatives
The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is
two important machines
Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.
thinking action achieve
I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
travel adventure knowing
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
thinking one-day necks
The chicken noticed that the farmer came every day to feed it. It predicted that the farmer would continue to bring food every day. Inductivists think that the chicken had "extrapolated" its observations into a theory, and that each feeding time added justification to that theory. Then one day the farmer came and wrung the chicken's neck. This inductively justifies the conclusion that induction cannot justify any conclusion.
thinking done may
If the youth is content to abandon his previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly with the rulers, he may, after suitable tests, be promoted, but if he shows any regrettable solidarity with his previous associates, the rulers will reluctantly conclude that there is nothing to be done with him except to send him to the lethal chamber before his ill-disciplined intelligence has had time to spread revolt. This will be a painful duty to the rulers, but I think they will not shrink from performing it.
thinking chance deceiving
I suppose the advocates of unreason think that there is a better chance of profitably deceiving the populace if they keep it in a state of effervescence.
time unhappy hours
Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit! How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy.
thinking white house
If you put Sen. Kerry in the White House, I think you are going to see that another terrorist attack happen ... and I don't want to see another Sept. 11. Bernard Kerik
technology finance accounting
I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting. Bernard Ebbers
technology finance accounting
I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.
technology engineering economy
I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.
thinking media different
I don't think liberals in the media are really that much different from liberals outside the media. Bernard Goldberg
thinking guy bills
I admire Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly a lot because I think they're standup guys.
thinking people political
A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse in Washington. And I think - I think they're disappointed, because Barack Obama is not a new kind of politician. In fact, he's an old Chicago politician.
television young mediums
Television is a young person's medium. Bernard Cornwell