W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
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My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
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I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.
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In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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It's true that hydropower exploitation can bring economic development, but not necessarily to the benefit of local people.
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.
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I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a 'Terrible Towel.'
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men
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No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan's Famous.
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Music is a creative endeavor so I feel the business around it should be creative, too. One size doesn't have to fit all.
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I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world.
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I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
