"The world needs specialists and highly trained people with advanced degrees, no question about it. But the world also needs diversity and versatility. It needs people who know as much about our value system as they do about our solar system."

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Source : U.S. News & World Report Vol 92 (p. 66), 1982.

Roger Smith

#Teaching Quotes #People Quotes #Diversity Quotes

“Be cautious, understand the consequences of your decisions. You have to understand the consequences of every decision that you make. If you decide to be a writer, that's going to scale back your life, than when you decide to be an attorney. Y'know, if you send your kids to private school, then it's kind of like the federal budget, where if you spend money on one thing, but you have to cut on something else. So you just have to be aware, at all times, that every decision you make, has reverberations. And you have to understand those reverberations, and either you live with them, or you don't.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“The better I shoot, the less I have to maneuver.”
“Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind.”
“I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.”
“We need to return to the cosmopolitanism of Alexandria of yore, and marry that with the tolerance and democracy of Europe today”
“There are ... just two kinds of girls. Those who go down town Saturday nights, and those who don't.”

Source : Edna Ferber (2015). “Cheerful—By Request”, p.106, Booklassic
“One of the biggest and most common mistakes a woman makes is to substitute activity for God for a relationship with Him.”
“No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children's menu. I have no doubt that the children's menu itself tastes better than the meals on it. I would like to order Ã la carte. Or don't you serve fish to minors?”

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