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“Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.”

Believe Would Be Certain Creative Conscious Accomplish Faculty Believe In Me Possessing

Book:The Letters of Robert Schumann

Source: The Letters of Robert Schumann

“Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates.”

Different Choices Hours Differences Development Models Significant Despite Faculty Cognitive General Education

Author:Derek Bok

“What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds -- this faithful witness against us for good or evil.”

Evil Memories Records Wonderful Deeds Mysterious Witness Faithful Faculty Plastic Almighty Fidelity Register Riddle Our Words Inexplicable Tablets

Book:Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush

Source: Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush

“The cause of the six-sided shape of a snowflake is none other than that of the ordered shapes of plants and of numerical constants; and since in them nothing occurs without supreme reason-not, to be sure, such as discursive reasoning discovers, but such as existed from the first in the Creators's design and is preserved from that origin to this day in the wonderful nature of animal faculties, I do not believe that even in a snowflake this ordered pattern exists at random.”

Firsts Believe Reason Causes Animal Wonderful Design Shapes Six Plant Patterns Creator Supreme Reasoning Faculty This Day Snowflake Wonderful Nature

Author:Johannes Kepler

“The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be directed to developing his faculty of appreciation.”

Should Literature Enjoy Effort Objects Students Duty Appreciation Developing Primaries Faculty Delighted

Author:Lord David Cecil

“Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.”

Way Done Common Greater Materials Genius Ordinary Faculty Intensity Astonishing Refined

Book:Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

“The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.”

Should Wells Art Philosophy Literature Study Lawyer Faculty Engineers Acquaintance

Author:Terry Eagleton

“Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.”

Ifs Men Mean Literature Childhood Exercise Faculty Neglect Meanness Misers Early Childhood Early Childhood Education

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.”

Needs Wells Looks Goal Study Plans Century Resources Faculty 21st Century Asia Infrastructure

Author:William C. Kirby

“You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.”

Want Real Certain Duty Weakness Deserve Faculty

Author:Erskine Bowles

“One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business.”

Wells Littles Said Book House Boys Goodness Lays University Dinner Faculty Professors One Time Grandparent Insulted Colorado Plumbing Indoor Plumbing

Author:Charles Frazier

“Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.”

Mean Stories Use Guy Walks Wall Wake Up Revenge Frustration Shy Faculty Favourite Clerks

Author:Michel Gondry

“Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of dharma ("religion")-for it alone permanently uproots the cause of man's threefold suffering and reveals to him his true nature of Bliss. Self-realization is yoga or "oneness" with truth-the direct perception or experience of truth by the all-knowing intuitive faculty of the soul.”

Source: God Talks With Arjuna

“Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.”

Knows Needs Mind Children School Hours Teacher Six Responsible Our Children Safety Eight Welfare Faculty Volunteer Paramount

Author:Mike Fitzpatrick

“The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?”

Looks Poetry Poet Faculty

Book:Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series

Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series

“I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.”

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