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Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.

Derek Bok

Senior, College, Thinking

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Most people who seek attention and regard by announcing that they're writing a novel are actually so devoid of narrative talent that they can't hold the attention of a dinner table for thirty seconds, even with a dirty joke.

Paul Fussell

Dirty, Writing, People

Paul Fussell (1991). “Bad Or, the Dumbing of America”, Pocket Books

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Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.

George Mason

Men, Hands, Ideas

"Extracts from the Virginia Charters" by George Mason, July 1773.

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If a religion does not teach love, respect, and regard for others, it cannot be the religion of humanity.

Swami Muktananda

Humanity, Religion, Doe

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You have to seek the simplest implementation of a problem solution in order to know when you've reached your limit in that regard. Then it's easy to make tradeoffs, to back off a little, for performance reasons. You can simplify and simplify and simplify yet still find other incredible ways to simplify further.

Steve Wozniak

Order, Littles, Way

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Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be any police so vigilant and effetive, for the protections of all the rights of person, property and character, as such a sound and comprehensive education and training, as our system of Common Schools could be made to impart; and would not the payment of a sufficient tax to make such education and training universal, be the cheapest means of self-protection and insurance?

Horace Mann

Education, School, Character

Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1849). “The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education”, p.113

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If the human species, or indeed any part of the biosphere, is to continue to survive, it must eventually leave the Earth and colonize space. For the simple fact of the matter is, the planet Earth is doomed... Let us follow many environmentalists and regard the Earth as Gaia, the mother of all life (which indeed she is). Gaia, like all mothers, is not immortal. She is going to die. But her line of descent might be immortal. . . . Gaia's children might never die out-provided they move into space. The Earth should be regarded as the womb of life-but one cannot remain in the womb forever.

Frank J. Tipler

Mother, Children, Moving

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The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

Christopher Lasch

Common Sense, Community, Progress

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Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.

Bertrand Russell

Essence, Feelings, Depth

Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.9, Bertrand Russell

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Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.

Carson McCullers

Hero, Men, Giving

Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything to wound the conscience and moral sense of others, may indeed act immorally; but, so long as he is not guilty of being importunate, he violates no right.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Long, Doe, May

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Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!

Patrick Pearse

Blood, Finals, Slavery

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It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.

Terry Eagleton

Evil, Laid Back, Deny

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I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.

Susie Orbach

Kitchen, Wish, Needs

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Most parliamentarians don't have a clue as regards the challenges or the opportunities the games industry faces.

David Puttnam

Opportunity, Games, Challenges

"I hope we'll achieve the political legitimacy of the games industry". Interview with Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2009.

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The president said nothing about the views of government in regard to the possibility of Carolinas seceding. This however was frequently spoken of by other statesmen at the North. I think they were unanimous in this, that no army would be sent here.

John Bachman

Army, Thinking, Government

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I regard myself as an actress but, obviously, not in the Dame Judi Dench league. That isn't a problem because I don't think we are ever likely to be up for the same part!

Kelly Brook

Thinking, League, Dames

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Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.

Aravind Adiga

Dad, Son, People

"Indians' worst fear: the honest politician". www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

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We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.

Rafael Correa

Country, Wish, Kingdoms

"Julian Assange asylum application may take time, says Ecuador president" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2012.

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How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God.

George Gillespie

Men, Names, Oath

George Gillespie (1846). “The Presbyterian's Armoury: and II. The works of Mr. George Gillespie, with memoir of his life and writings”

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I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

Joan Allen

Strong Women, Integrity, Thinking

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The 20th century was a century in which human rights were infringed upon in numerous parts of the world, and Japan also bears responsibility in that regard. I believe that we have to look at our own history with humility and think about our responsibility.

Shinzo Abe

Believe, Humility, Responsibility

"U.S. 'only indispensable alliance'". Interview with Lally Weymouth, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 23, 2007.

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... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have differed in this regard.

Rene Dubos

Civilization, Community, Groups

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It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been willing to admit, on the existence and support of certain social assumptions and practices: the belief that each and every human being possesses great and inherent value, the willingness to respect the rights of others even at the cost of some disadvantages to one's self, the ability to defer some immediate benefits for the sake of long-range goals, and a regard for reason-giving and civility in public discourse.

Mary Ann Glendon

Rights, Self, Practice

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... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that can be devised by man, and contains in itself movements more wonderful than those in any machine. ... it is for all practical purposes impossible for a machine to have enough organs to make it act in all the contingencies of life in the way in which our reason makes us act.

Rene Descartes

Men, Hands, Purpose

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