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  • B.F. Skinner Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
    New Scientist 22 (392), 21 May 1964, pp.483-4.
    B.F. Skinner
    American behaviorist (1904 - 1990)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Education must have two foundations - morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Billy Wilder Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
    The New Hollywood : American Movies in the 70s (1975)
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald Either you think - or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • Dave Barry Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Bill Viola Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Vauvenargues Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Socrates Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Andy Warhol Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Anne Campbell Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Abdolkarim Soroush Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Bill Laswell Engineering producers who don't play and have technology as a background may be the reason why there's a lot of cold non-musical music, for lack of a better description.
    Bill Laswell
    American bass guitarist (1955 - )
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  • Bruce Dickinson Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • George Michael English people have seen me get through scandals.
    George Michael
    English singer, songwriter, record producer, and philanthropist (1963 - 2016)
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  • Bernhard von Bulow English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • Dorothy Parker Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Nolan Ryan Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
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  • C. S. Lewis Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.
    Surprised by Joy (1955)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Caleb Cushing Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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