William Torrey Harris Quotes

Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.

William Torrey Harris

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• Uncertainty of any sort results in volatility, and Brexit will be no exception.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
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• I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

  

  Daniel Clowes
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  • Proud
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• Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.

  

  Harri Holkeri
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• You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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  • Question
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• Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
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• When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • People
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  • Results

• But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • History
  • Individual
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• In any film there's always a historical implication.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Always
  • Film
  • Historical

• We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Country
  • Children
  • Gun

• Cause I am not a word, I am not a line. I am not a girl that can ever be defined

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Girl
  • Causes
  • Lines

• before one actually visits them, everyone tends to think of their favorite countries as one grand Disneyland filled with national monuments and historical treasures conveniently laid out for easy viewing, when what they really are filled with, of course, is people going to work, laundromats and places to buy rat poison.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Wish
  • Accidents
  • Reduction

• A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods.

  

  F. E. Smith
  • People
  • Individual
  • Genius

• We still have to evolve, that's how we're created, we're created to evolve so you can believe in that the answer is in this book or in this one idea that the masses most believe in, each individual must evolve themselves, spiritually and consciously.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Individual

• We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal gratifications and love affairs and financial affairs and everything else. But loping alongside him is this fascist lout who keeps trying to take over. And if you keep ignoring him, he gets bigger and bigger, so every once in a while the free individual has to turn away from his private pursuits and give this fascist lout a few clouts, and beat him down to size.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Free
  • Poetry
  • Trouble

• The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Individual
  • Flying
  • Accurate

• I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Cool
  • Person
  • Individual

• Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Powerful
  • Prayer

• There are filmmakers like me in different parts of the world that have a story they want to tell, and it's a story that comes out of a certain historical reality within their own life. Then you get committed all the way and however long it takes, stay very committed.

  

  Haile Gerima
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Learn
  • Accidents

• I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Things
  • Modern
  • Tradition

• We reward people a lot for being rich, for being famous, for being cute, for being thin... one of the values I think we need to instill in our country, in our children, is a sense of 'usefulness', in other words, are we useful, are we making other peoples' lives a little bit better?

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Country
  • Children

• Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.

  

  William Torrey Harris
  • Individual
  • Results
  • Historical