Will Durant Quotes
Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.
Quotes to Explore
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Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.
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We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
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We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.
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Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
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Everybody wants to talk about sectarian conflicts of the war in Iraq, but the fact of the matter is, Sunnis have lived with Shias in harmony more in the confines of Iraq, in that land, than they have been in conflict. That's an historical fact.
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The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.
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In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in harmony by man's will. This harmony can be acheived only through art.
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All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.
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You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace.
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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
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Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and women made up 40 percent of Afghanistan’s doctors, 70 percent of its teachers and 30 percent of its civil servants. A small number of women even held important political posts as members of Parliament and judges. Most women did not wear the burqa.
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It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.
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When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
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My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.
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There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.
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Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.
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Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
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Narcissists ... have the least sense of self of anybody on the planet.
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I started at 14, and only played bass. I traded in my train set for a bass, and used my dad's amp.
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Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.
