George Washington Carver
Agricultural Scientist, Inventor
"One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living."
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Virginia Satir
Psychotherapist, Author
"I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's direction or live so that you never disappoint or hurt anybody, then your life is a continual assessment of whether or not you please other people."
Ansel Adams
Photographer
"I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief."
Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites."
Cynthia Lewis
Author
"Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer."
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"Nobody notices it when your zipper is up, but everyone notices when it's down."
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"For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know."
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"A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself."
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"If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today."
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"I think the success of any school can be measured by the contribution the alumni make to our national life."
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"Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing."
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"External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now."
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"Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them."
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"To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind',first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local community;second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near;and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism."
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"Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period."
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"I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life."
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"Look at the footprints you've made."
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"I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly."
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"It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee."
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"Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment."
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"[Antonio] Gramsci's words and actions explain their assessment, though I think we should refrain from using the term "model intellectual" for him or others."
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"As for geoengineering, there have been serious general critiques that I think cannot be ignored, like Clive Hamilton's, along with many positive assessments. It is not a matter for subjective judgment based on guesswork and intuition. Rather, these are matters that have to be considered seriously, relying on the best scientific understanding available, without abandoning sensible precautionary principles."
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"There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth."
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"According to my assessment, even if you have many more troops than others, how can that help you to victory?"
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"So far as Chairman Mao's own hopes were concerned, he initiated the "Cultural Revolution" in order to avert the restoration of capitalism, but he had made an erroneous assessment of China's actual situation. In the first place, the targets of the revolution were wrongly defined, which led to the effort to ferret out "capitalist roaders in power in the Party". Blows were dealt at leading cadres at all levels who had made contributions to the revolution and had practical experience, including Comrade Liu Shaoqi."
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