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“The world wants to be cheated. So cheat.”
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“I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.”
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“Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.”
Source : Michael Dirda (2007). “Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life”, p.14, Macmillan
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“We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.”
Source : "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.
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“It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know it. That's pretty much the judgment of history, and it is mine as well.”
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“Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made that we can see only the present moment. If we could see the past, then of course it would look different. For there was a time when every man was part of his mother, and (earlier still) part of his father as well, and when they were part of his grandparents. If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing--rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.”
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“it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.”
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“There is arguably something wrong with a method of persuasion that cannot pass the test of publicity.”
Source : Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.170, Broadview Press