Edward Miner Gallaudet Quotes
The same arguments which go to show that knowledge is power, that the condition of a people is improved in proportion as the masses are educated, have their application with equal weight to the deaf.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there's evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans.
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Making products that we sell around the world stamped with three proud words: Made in the USA.
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The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.
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Μέγας γὰρ Ἅιδης ἐστὶν εὔθυνος βροτῶνἔνερθε χθονός,δελτογράφῳ δὲ πάντ᾽ ἐπωπᾷ φρενί.
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To those who have any intimate acquaintance with the laws of chemistry and physics the suggestion that the spiritual world could be ruled by laws of allied character is as preposterous as the suggestion that a nation could be ruled by laws like the laws of grammar.
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Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.
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No one has yet convinced me a dollar stranded overseas is better than a dollar brought back home here to America for any reasons. So, if a company needs it, whether it's to do research, buy another business in America, grow jobs or try to become more financially strong, that is good for the United States.
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Animation in itself has so many different looks and styles and possibilities.
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The only thing major labels can really offer is money.
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I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.
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The same arguments which go to show that knowledge is power, that the condition of a people is improved in proportion as the masses are educated, have their application with equal weight to the deaf.
