Thomas A. Edison Quotes
The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.Thomas A. Edison
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
Ingrid Betancourt -
I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
Ian Frazier -
No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
Garret Dillahunt -
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
Patrick Rothfuss -
I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
Rachele Brooke Smith
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
Nathan Fillion -
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
Carl Sandburg -
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
Damien Rice -
I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
Washed Out -
At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
Carl Spitteler -
I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
Sam Graves -
The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.
Pamela Meyer -
To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
Tariq Ali -
We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
Dana Spiotta -
This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
Eddy Arnold
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As for the symphonic activities... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses.
Chuck Mangione -
I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.
Mariska Hargitay -
African audiences cannot accept our passive consumer role in the presence of film. (p. 44)
Marshall McLuhan -
Never did form more fairy thread the dance Than she who scours the hills to find it flowers; Never did sweeter lips chained ears entrance Than hers that move, true to its striking hours; No hands so white e'er decked the warrior's lance, As those which tend its lamp as darkness lours; And never since dear Christ expired for man, Had holy shrine so fair a sacristan.
Alfred Austin -
I love collaborating with people, but I also really love working by myself.
King Tuff -
The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.
Thomas A. Edison