Harvey Cushing Quotes

Standardization of our educational systems which includes testing is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

Harvey Cushing

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• I was this young boy and I saw this man with his hands round my sister's neck, I was just standing there with her two children beside me... Everything I've done since then was for the purpose of making women look stronger, not naïve. And so, when everyone started saying I was a misogynist, that really freaked me out. They didn't know me. They didn't know what I had seen in my life. That was the first part of fashion that I hated - people labeling me without knowing me.

  

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• I want somebody, a men, who's whole and wholesome and has as much zest for living as I have. But I haven't found one who fills the bill; you can't hardly find them kind no more. And I know many women my size, psychologically and intellectually, who have the same problem.

  

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• If you want to be led by the Spirit of God, then devote yourself to the Word of God.

  

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• The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.

  

  Eleanor Holmes Norton
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• I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.

  

  Claudette Colvin
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• Marshall here is vaguely upset. He might talk sternly to you. I, on the other hand, am a very bad enemy to have, and a lovely friend.

  

  Courtney Milan
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• Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

  

  Alasdair MacIntyre
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• So why'd you say those words to him. If you could start over again.

  

  Pete Yorn
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• In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of preventing an evil believed to be greater. And the tragedy is that we do not know whether the evil we condone will not in the end be greater than the evil we seek to avert-- or be identified with.

  

  Emil Fackenheim
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• It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
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• I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.Mick Tay

  

  Mick Taylor The Rolling Stones
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• Some persons are so inclined to mortify themselves that at every opportunity they have, they do so. What a beautiful practice this is, and how profitable!

  

  Alphonsus Rodriguez
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• The final goal of physical education is to make strong beings. In the purely physical sense, the Natural Method promotes the qualities of organic resistance, muscularity and speed, towards being able to walk, run, jump, move on all fours, to climb, to keep balance, to throw, lift, defend yourself and to swim.

  

  Georges Hebert
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• Truth triumphs, even if there be no public support.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

  

  Robert Wyatt
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• Standardization of our educational systems which includes testing is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

  

  Harvey Cushing
  • Individualism
  • Standardization
  • Educational systems