Thomas Clarkson Quotes

We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.

Thomas Clarkson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 28, 1760 - September 26, 1846

Topics

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The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

John Knowles

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I would not want to leave the impression that I would give some precedents more weight than others because of some sort of academic disagreement.

Amy Coney Barrett

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You meet new people. We just spent two hours with people we didn't know before, just talking about the Badgers.

Steve Bartlett

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At some point, a group of people working towards similar goals will exhibit a distribution of performance.

Steven Sinofsky

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Hard numbers tell an important story; user stats and sales numbers will always be key metrics. But every day, your users are sharing a huge amount of qualitative data, too - and a lot of companies either don't know how or forget to act on it.

Stewart Butterfield

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If you're not hiring from some groups of the population, then you're obviously missing out.

Stewart Butterfield

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Anybody who loves what they do, they're constantly doing it all the time. So I'm constantly working.

Logic

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We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

Donald Norman

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I think you could offer seven or eight different possible ends for energy policy. Climate change is one of them. Dealing with criteria pollutants is one of those related to that.

Brad Carson

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For the anti-Semite, the problems of the world can invariably be ascribed to the Jews; for the Communist, to the capitalists.

Bret Stephens

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Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

Anthony Trollope

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We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.

Arthur Keith

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