Daniel Coit Gilman Quotes
It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures—but far and wide.
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.
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When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
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That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.
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I'm from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.
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Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.
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I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
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Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.
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So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor; it feels very much closed in for various reasons.
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The best leaders don't set timid and selfish goals but instead set bold targets that may be harder to achieve.
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Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
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People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.
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Evils draw men together.
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I was aware that the loosening of mortgage credit terms for subprime borrowers increased financial risk. But I believed then, as now, that the benefits of broadened home ownership are worth the risk.
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I'm not the sort of fellow who does the same thing all the time. I began using a lot of science fiction apparatus. I came out with the atom bomb two years before it was actually used because I read in the paper that a fellow named Nicola Tesla was working on the atom bomb.
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To cognize the Divine Essence - this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth!
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The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
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I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.
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It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures—but far and wide.
