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• How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Nature, Flower, Thinking

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• Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select - doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

  John B. Watson

  Men, Artist, Race

  Source: jaosnuvanitte.wordpress.com

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• The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.

  John Dewey

  Educational, Kind, Problem

  John Dewey (1997). “Experience and Education: The 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.23, Kappa Delta Pi

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• My concerns through the years increased about the concerns of an independent judiciary and how we maintain it. Certainly in the states. I'm a product of state government in my own state of Arizona. And it seemed to me that the popular election of judges was creating major problems in many states, and we had improved the system in Arizona. And I thought the nation ought to at least rethink how we select our nation's trial judges in the states.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Independent, Creating, Government

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.

  Adrienne Rich

  Book, Editors, Chance

  Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

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• As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher-admittedly a daunting task-it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through the chaff, select the wheat, and profitably publish a worthy list.

  Olivia Goldsmith

  Writing, Tasks, Wheat

  Olivia Goldsmith (2014). “The Bestseller”, p.146, Diversion Books

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• We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mean, Faults, Praise

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• I select my technology based on what I need and I also don't take up what I don't feel that I need.

  Jonathon Keats

  Technology, Needs, Feels

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I`m just learning that according to a source familiar with the transition process, President-elect Donald Trump intends to select Lieutenant General Michael Flynn as his national security adviser.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  President, Transition, Source

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Adam Schiff, who is of course the ranking member on the House Select Committee said earlier today I`d be worried about an impulsive president with an impulsive national security adviser.

  Kristen Welker

  House, President, Today

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• My experience enables me to select the very best pilots in the market.

  Niki Lauda

  Pilots

  Source: www.european-business.com

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• I don't belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.

  Ai Weiwei

  People, Controlled, Ifs

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• There are surely many ways that [media select and contextualise events determine the boundaries of public thinking] happens, but we can note at the most obvious level the way in which forms of resistance or violence get cast as "conflicts" that assume two sides that are fighting only against one another.

  Judith Butler

  Fighting, Thinking, Media

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• The problem isn't testosterone and aggression; it's how often we reward aggression. And we do: We give medals to masters of the "right" kinds of aggression. We preferentially mate with them. We select them as our leaders.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Giving, Leader, Rewards

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.

  Plato

  Sea, Use, Theory

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• The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment, and of giving to the state governments such an agency in the formation of the federal government, as must secure the authority of the former.

  James Madison

  Government, Agency, Giving

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom, the right to freely express opinion and the right to be allowed to criticise and form opinions. Human dignity is the right to health, work, education and social welfare. Human dignity is the right and the practical possibility to shape the future with others. These rights, the rights of democracy, are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

  Olof Palme

  Rights, People, Political

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• Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided with the specimens about which you speak. If you can find nothing better, take a house-fly or a cricket, and let each one hold a specimen and examine it as you talk.

  Louis Agassiz

  Teaching, Science, House

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• I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in the school to impose certain ideas or to form certain habits in the child, but is there as a member of the community to select the influences which shall affect the child and to assist him in properly responding to these influences.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Children, Educational

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.231, Indiana University Press

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• A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules, and it is of such force that it not only upholds those who are born princes, but it often enables men to rise from a private station to that rank. And, on the contrary, it is seen that when princes have thought more of ease than of arms they have lost their states. And the first cause of your losing it is to neglect this art; and what enables you to acquire a state is to be master of the art.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Men

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, Chapter 14, 1513.

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• He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like plasters? Stuck on to other objects we select? Look at him! ... My desire might be to make this boy an ardent husband - a caring citizen - a worshipper of abstract and unifying God. My achievement, however, is more likely to make a ghost!

  Peter Shaffer

  Husband, Caring, Boys

  "Equus". Book by Peter Shaffer, 1973.

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• Leaders select noble objectives and pursue them with such intensity that others join them. ... The greatest of all leaders from this perspective was Jesus Christ. ....May your choices be so powerful and magnetic that you'll draw people toward life (Duet. 30:19, ...therefore choose life.-) rather than death, blessing rather than cursing.

  John Ashcroft

  Jesus, Powerful, Blessing

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• Undergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies.... The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate on a given ethnic or geographical minority; it is that they encourage members of that minority to study themselves - thereby simultaneously negating the goals of a liberal education and reinforcing the sectarian and ghetto mentalities they purport to undermine.

  Tony Judt

  Ghetto, Goal, Identity

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• I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Future

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• Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to visit a vampire in a Goth-den tonight. Why, then, Ms. Lane, do you look like a perky rainbow?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Night, Rainbow, Vampire

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Jul 07, 2014

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