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 think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.
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Where is democratic process or popular sovereignty for the endangered population? It cannot be "given" or "allocated" by some other power without that same power claiming the right to withdraw what it gives.
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It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
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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.
