Dagobert D. Runes Quotes
That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.
Dagobert D. Runes
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The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
J. Philippe Rushton
I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
Dallas Roberts
I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
Vikram Seth
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
N. Scott Momaday
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
Walter Salles
If I die and am worth $50 million as opposed to $3 billion, it is really not important.
Jorge M. Perez
An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.
Clifton Fadiman
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B. F. Skinner
A sort of gulpy, gurgly, plobby, squishy, wofflesome sound, like a thousand eager men drinking soup in a foreign restaurant.
P. G. Wodehouse
The most important asset you need to protect in order to manage the demands of a job or an investment portfolio is your production of energy. And, just like with money, if you do a great job managing your energy, you'll get a great return.
Jim Loehr
That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.
Dagobert D. Runes