Edgar Dale Quotes
There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
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I love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.
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When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'
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There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.
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Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.
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As long as there have been men.. ..upon this globe.. ..we have held firmly to the notion of.. ..all of which must continue to be everlasting in time and infinite in space.
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…jumped-up commercials pretending, too late, to be the ruling class..
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I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
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Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
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There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.
