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"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community." »William James
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"Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"There are only two kinds of scholars those who love ideas and those who hate them." »Emile Chartier
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"There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them." »Emile Chartier
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"America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools." »Thucydides
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"Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines." »Benoit Mandelbrot
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"We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present." »Lawrence K. Frank
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"A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm." »Henrik Ibsen
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"What people say behind your back is your standing in the community." »Edgar Watson Howe
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"Hark! here the sound of lute so sweet, And there the voice of wailing loud; Here scholars grave in conclave meet, There howls the brawling drunken crowd; Here, charming maidens full of glee, There, tottering, withered dames we see. Such light! Such shade! I cannot tell, If here we live in heaven or hell." »Bhartrihari
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"A city is a large community where people are lonesome together." »Herbert V. Prochnow
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"I tried to find Him on the Christian cross, but He was not there I went to the Temple of the Hindus and to the old pagodas, but I could not find a trace of Him anywhere. I searched on the mountains and in the valleys but neither in the heights nor in the depths was I able to find Him. I went to the Caaba in Mecca, but He was not there either. I questioned the scholars and philosophers but He was beyond their understanding. I then looked into my heart and it was there where He dwelled that I saw Him He was nowhere else to be found." »Jalal ud-Din Rumi
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"The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class." »Aristotle
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"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it." »Marian Wright Edelman
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"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community." »Oscar Wilde
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"Etymology, n.:
Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term "etymology" was formed from the Latin "etus" ("eaten"), the root "mal" ("bad"), and "logy" ("study of"). It meant "the study of things that are hard to swallow."" »Mike Kellen
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"A thing is right if it tends to preserve the stability, integrity, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong if it tends otherwise." »Aldo Leopold
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"There is so much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated it keeps us in touch with ignorance of the community." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two." »Ambrose Bierce
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"Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community." »Andrew Carnegie
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"The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement." »Albert Einstein
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"Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it." »I Ching
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"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant." »John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
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"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant." »John Stuart Mill
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"Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." »Aldo Leopold
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"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs." »Albert Einstein
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"Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong." »Albert Einstein
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"The religious community is essential, for alone our vision is too narrow to see all that must be seen. Together, our vision widens and strength is renewed." »Mark Morrison-Reed
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"My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father." »Clifton Paul Fadiman
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