David Sobel Quotes
You can’t bounce off the walls If there are no walls: outdoor schools make kids happier—and smarter
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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Cricket has become more popular, not me... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'
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Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
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When you look at my record at 10-0 as a professional and look at Jon Jones' record when he was 10-0, who was his toughest guy? Stephan Bonnar, and he did not finish him. I have fought higher-caliber opponents at this stage in my career than Jon did in his at 9-1; His tenth fight was Matt Hammil.
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Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride it as long as you can. Love as long as you can.
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I wasn't asleep! said Bruno, in a deeply-injured tone. 'When I shuts mine eyes, it's to show that I'm awake!'
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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
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I don't usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into.
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Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.
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In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.
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It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.
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How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.
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The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.
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Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.
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As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which order and measurements are investigated, and that it makes no difference whether it be in numbers, figures, stars, sounds or any other object that the question of measurement arises. I saw consequently that there must be some general science to explain that element as a whole which gives rise to problems about order and measurement, restricted as these are to no special subject matter. This, I perceived was called 'universal mathematics'.
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Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
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Culture is always about politics in the end.
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Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
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You can’t bounce off the walls If there are no walls: outdoor schools make kids happier—and smarter
