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Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense. William Lyon Phelps
Nature Girl Sense Some Look Until Makes Boy Boys And Girls Lovely Acquire Tolerated
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older. William Lyon Phelps
Life Time Thoughts Youth Older Most Fallacy Person Happier Happiest Interesting Who Grow Belief Founded Thinks
The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better. William P. Leahy
Together Better Feelings About More Various Talk Get Get Together Perspectives Beliefs
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. Quintilian
Experience Valuable Everything More Almost Almost Everything Precept Than
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort. Quintilian
Teacher Worth Mind Liable Too Faults Severity Correcting Boy Discourage Times Effort While Warn
A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much. Quintilian
Too Much Too Laugh Purchased Costs Propriety Expense Much
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide. Quintilian
Reading Our Minds Must Rather Than Form Deep Wide
Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others. Jill Biden
Education Kindness Compassion Others Us Teaches Connection
Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive. A. Bartlett Giamatti
Time Trouble Remarkably Naive Idealism Devoted Always Been Get American Capacity Viewed Belief Why
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas. A. Bartlett Giamatti
People Free Other Mediums Exchange Ideas Coercion Here Universities
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values. A. Bartlett Giamatti
Culture Mind Value Values Made Our Convey Assertion University
All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League. A. Bartlett Giamatti
American
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew. A. Bartlett Giamatti
Life Work Me People Would Something Only Knew Know Understand Got Lot Them Who Baseball Why
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way. A. Bartlett Giamatti
Matters Decency Way Lead Race Should Baseball
No one man is superior to the game. A. Bartlett Giamatti
Game Man Superior One-Man No-One
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience. A. Bartlett Giamatti
Me Game Experience Both Outside Most Human Literature Human Experience Nourishing Baseball
The professionals must set a good example. A. Bartlett Giamatti
Good Example Must Good Example Professionals Set
Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. Abraham Flexner
War Nation Rich Pay Enough Our Our Choice We Cannot Must Both Civilization Make Cannot Choice
The road to the sacred leads through the secular. Abraham Joshua Heschel
Secular Through Sacred Road Leads
He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor. Abraham Joshua Heschel
God Light Satisfied Neglects Ease Ardor Never He His Truly Craves Who
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. Abraham Joshua Heschel
God Prayer Issue
Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations. Alan Dundes
Life Nothing Seems Transitions Series
There can be no self without other, no identity of group A without a group B. Alan Dundes
Group Other Self Identity Without
The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc. Alan Dundes
Myth Legend Folklore Superstition Study Particular Genres Ballad Proverb Etc Riddle Largely
They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method. Alan Dundes
Analysis Collect Must Folklore About Above Data Write Merely Also Course Readings Material Context Method Lecture Items Texts Theory Based Gather
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses. Alan Dundes
Folklore Only Academic Identity Courses Years Taught Many
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