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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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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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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When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message.
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I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common.
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As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
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Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.
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I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.
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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.
