“ If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through. ”
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“ By the definition accepted in the United States, any person with even a small amount of Logically, it would be exactly as justifiable to say that any person with even a small amount of white blood is white. Why do they say one rather than the other? Because the former classification suits the convenience of those making the classification… ”
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“ You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words. Conversation in a dorm room quoted in Language in Thought and Action. ”
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“ If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it. ”
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“ Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure. ”
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“ By the definition accepted in the United States, any person with even a small amount of Logically, it would be exactly as justifiable to say that any person with even a small amount of white blood is white. Why do they say one rather than the other? Because the former classification suits the convenience of those making the classification… ”
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“ If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it. ”
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“ If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it. ”
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“ Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure. ”
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“ Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure. ”
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“ By the definition accepted in the United States, any person with even a small amount of Logically, it would be exactly as justifiable to say that any person with even a small amount of white blood is white. Why do they say one rather than the other? Because the former classification suits the convenience of those making the classification… ”
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“ If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through. ”
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“ By the definition accepted in the United States, any person with even a small amount of Logically, it would be exactly as justifiable to say that any person with even a small amount of white blood is white. Why do they say one rather than the other? Because the former classification suits the convenience of those making the classification… ”
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“ If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through. ”
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“ Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure. ”
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“ It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die. ”
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“ By the definition accepted in the United States, any person with even a small amount of Logically, it would be exactly as justifiable to say that any person with even a small amount of white blood is white. Why do they say one rather than the other? Because the former classification suits the convenience of those making the classification… ”
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“ You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words. Conversation in a dorm room quoted in Language in Thought and Action. ”
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“ If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it. ”
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“ Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure. ”
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“ So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit. ”
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“ By the definition accepted in the United States, any person with even a small amount of Logically, it would be exactly as justifiable to say that any person with even a small amount of white blood is white. Why do they say one rather than the other? Because the former classification suits the convenience of those making the classification… ”
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“ If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through. ”
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“ You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words. Conversation in a dorm room quoted in Language in Thought and Action. ”
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