John Holt Quotes

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

John Holt

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At the end of the day, even if you are cooler than Obama, the media will never let you be cooler.

Meghan McCain

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I thought the message of the artist was more important than the writing style. I tried to be clear; I wanted everyone to be welcome. I think some of the more serious writers wrote to a more elite audience than that. They're the ones who were defining the seriousness of rock n' roll.

Robert Hilburn

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Entrepreneurship is about tackling big problems - often non-obvious problems - that will have a meaningful impact on the world, and this usually involves solving these problems in counterintuitive ways.

Trip Adler

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Middle and high school sucked.

Mija

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People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.

Michele Bachmann

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I picked economics at the end of my undergraduate time because it seemed to be a really nice combination of theory, including mathematical theory on one hand, and things that are quite practical that you can touch and see and feel. So I picked it, and I consciously thought of it as an experiment to see if I liked it. And it worked.

Michael Spence

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The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

Michael Leunig

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I think you can appreciate different interpretations. Art is not a contest. I can even appreciate hearing someone play something in a way that I wouldn't.

Joshua Bell

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Military rule in Indonesia formally ended in 1998, but the army remains above the law.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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I think every kid is a 'Spider-Man' fan at some point.

Jon Watts

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As long as I can make a phone call and do a WhatsApp, I'm fine.

Christine McVie

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I don't want people to look at me as someone who is just this celebrity person.

Selena Gomez

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