Isaac Watts Quotes
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Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should be allowed to discover knowledge for themselves, that they should construct their own knowledge. This has surfaced most recently in connection with mathematics instruction, where the idea is that they need to discover how to add for themselves. Rather than being taught how to add, they should construct this knowledge on their own.
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To resolve this issue will require Iran to come to the table and discuss in a clear and forthright way how to prove to the international community that the intentions of their nuclear program are peaceful. [...] The question is going to be whether in these discussions they show themselves moving clearly in that direction.
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Nowhere have women been more excluded from decision-making than in the military and foreign affairs. When it comes to the military and questions of nuclear disarmament, the gender gap becomes the gender gulf.
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Together we hope to establish a standard of Bravery and Kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects and nurtures others in the face of bullying and abandonment.
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As long as you are curious, you defeat age.
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Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.
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The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the 'evolution' of brains, if understood, would be simply the account of how the atoms came to be so caught and jammed.
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If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.
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The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
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Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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When my daughter left for college, I lost my in-house consultant to youth culture. There's just stuff I don't get. And there's something kind of pathetic about someone my age trying to pretend she gets it, so I don't try to pretend.
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I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
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When a new book is published, read an old one.
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Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever.
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Keep asking yourself, 'What kind of a company would my company be if everyone in it was just like me?'
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Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re going to die? Each joy was clouded by the knowledge it would end. And so nature had implanted in us a desire for something unattainable? No. It couldn’t be. It makes no sense. Every other striving implanted by nature had a corresponding object that wasn’t a phantom. Why this exception? the detective reasoned. It was nature making hunger when there wasn’t any food. We continue. We go on. Thus death proved life.
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And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.
