Humphrey B. Neill famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The public is often right during the trends, but wrong at both ends
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When Everyone thinks alike, everyone is likely to be wrong
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Don't confuse brains with a bull market.
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In sum, the purpose is to contest the popular view, because popular opinions are so frequently found to be untimely, misled (by propaganda), or plainly wrong.
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Many a healthy reaction has proved fatal.
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At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.
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Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely
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Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.
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Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.
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David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.
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You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.
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Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
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