Thirty Quotes - Page 40

• To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

  Gordon Brown

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

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• For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught.

  W. C. Sellar

  Teaching, Wish, Taught

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• Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness.If you have faith in all the three hundred and thirty millions of your mythological Gods, and in all the Gods which foreigners have now and again introduced into your midst, and still have no faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for you.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Greatness, Secret

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1113, Manonmani Publishers

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• To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life. For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things.

  Henry Ford

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Years

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• Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs, who seized three-pronged lances when the warlords raised whips in their black hands. We were brave and sacrifice was easy and we asked the sun, the moon, to alter the sky. Now I see a thousand waves of beans and rice and am happy. In the evening haze heroes are coming home.

  Mao Zedong

  Dream, Regret, Hero

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• I had no idea, but I realized that probably thirty to forty percent of my brainpower was taken up with the questions that I couldn't answer- because I had no direction. When I got clear on exactly where I wanted to go, and set the goals to get there, my mind calmed down.

  Chip Wilson

  Inspirational, Taken, Ideas

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• Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

  Peg Bracken

  Memorable, Cutting, Two

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• Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Years, Giving

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• The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million people have been killed in armed conflict. Most of them were civilians.

  George Monbiot

  War, People, Generations

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• My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

  Mark Twain

  German Language, Years, Down And

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.378, Xist Publishing

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• It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.

  Mark Twain

  Hurt, Spring, Fall

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3129, GENERAL PRESS

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• I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.

  Smedley Butler

  Wall, Marine, Men

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• Thirty years ago, about 80% of a company's assets resided in its plant and equipment, with 20% in the knowledge of its people. Today, the reverse is true. The knowledge of our staff is our principal asset

  Susan Rice

  Happy, Business, Years

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• They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Power, Government, Hands

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.16, Best Books on

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• Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the dust - the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.

  Lord Byron

  Lying, Loss, Past

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• Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife

  Robin Tunney

  Women, Years, Differences

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• Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Morning, Taken, Home

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• In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series.

  Craig Kilborn

  Boston, Years, Massachusetts

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• Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably leave with him.

  Count Basie

  Years, One Day, Band

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• I am going to be pretty kick a$$ by the time I'm thirty, and I can't wait!!

  Rose McGowan

  Waiting, Kicks, I Can

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• I never wanted all this hoopla. All I wanted was to be a good ball player and hit twenty-five or thirty homers, drive in a hundred runs, hit .280 and help my club win pennants. I just wanted to be one of the guys, an average player having a good season.

  Roger Maris

  Running, Winning, Player

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• For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.

  Joe Mantegna

  Years, Careers, Lasts

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• I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance.

  Geena Davis

  Girl, School, Years

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• I'm thirty-six years old. I'm just getting started!

  Marilyn Monroe

  Years, Six, Getting Started

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• And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

  James Levine

  Men, Years, Lasts

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