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'm already the most fortunate girl in the world, so I have zero expectations for what the future will bring.
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The earliest Christians held that God had exalted Jesus to a divine status at his resurrection. (This shows, among other things, that this is not simply a “skeptical” view or a “secular” view of early Christology; it is one held by believing scholars as well.)
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I believe in women. I believe in myself. I believe in my body.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.
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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.
