“Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.” PeopleCountryStatesSchoolLevelsLeaderPositionProduceGoes OnDegreesEducationalDepartmentPublic SchoolHarvardHigh LevelAdministrators Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by giving thought not only to the aim but to the method of approach. Avoid a frontal attack on a long established position; instead, seek to turn it by flank movement, so that a more penetrable side is exposed to the thrust of truth. But, in any such indirect approach, take care not to diverge from the truth- for nothing is more fatal to its real advancement than to lapse into untruth.” IfsGivingLongIdeasRealCareFormTurnsSidesMovementPositionTruth IsDegreesApproachAimMethodTake CareResistanceInevitableOppositionExposedNew IdeasAdvancementThrustIndirectUntruthLapses Book:Why Don't We Learn from History? Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?
“Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay for her right to exist, to keep a position in whatever line, with sex favors. Thus it is merely a question of degree whether she sells herself to one man, in or out of marriage, or to many men!... The economic and social inferiority of woman is responsible for prostitution.” MenShouldSocialSexLinesPayEconomicPositionDegreesResponsibleSellsFavorsTreatedInevitableMeritOne ManProstitutionInferiority Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections
“Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous, and that with but a feeble stretch of the imagination those possibilities might wisely be deemed certainties.” MaySaidMightImaginationPossibilityPositionDegreesEnormousCertaintyVancouver Author:Homer
“Stoutly as we may affirm that our disasters and vices are chargeable to luck, we never dream of ascribing our meritorious deeds, in the slightest degree to its agency. In such cases we quite unconsciously blink out of sight the magic power of the latter principle, so wondrous and all-controlling in its influence at other times, and coolly appropriate to ourselves not merely the lion's share, but the whole glory of our position.” MayWholeDreamPrinciplesCasesMagicShareInfluencePositionDegreesGlorySightLuckVicesDeedsDisasterAgencyAppropriateLatterLionsBlinkWondrousMagic Powers Author:William Matthews
“In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get.” ShouldPositionParticularArmsDegreesComplexesDrivingFamiliar Author:Umberto Guidoni
“The categories of woman and man are too rigid. They're going to give way to new forces. They already have, to a degree, but for most of us, this drama held sway, and we assumed our positions.” MenWayGivingForcePositionDramaDegreesMen And WomenCategories Author:John Maus
“The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers--and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works--should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative! All information should be free. Mistrust authority--promote decentralization. Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position. You can create art and beauty on a computer. Computers can change your life for the better.” WorldWayShouldArtHandsMightAgeRaceTeachInformationPositionDegreesAuthorityComputerEthicsAccessYieldJudgedUnlimitedChanging Your LifeImperativesCriteriaMistrustHackingHackersDecentralization Author:Steven Levy
“Whatever success I have achieved, whatever positions of leadership I have held have depended less on Ivy League degrees or SAT scores or GPAs and have instead been due to that sense of connection and empathy, the special obligation I felt as a black man like you to help those who need it most, people who didn't have the opportunities that I had because there, but for the grace of God go I. I might have been in their shoes. I might have been in prison. I might have been unemployed. I might not have been able to support a family. And that motivates me.” PeopleMenNeedsHas BeensHelpingMightAbleOpportunityFeltBlackSupportGraceSpecialPositionLike YouEqualDegreesEmpathyConnectionsPrisonShoesDuesObligationLeagueSatScoreMight Have BeenEqual RightsGrace Of GodUnemployedIvyIvy LeagueSat ScoresGpa Author:Barack Obama
“Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.” ProcessInfluenceEventsPositionDegreesRemainsCanadaAlliesReconstruction Author:Stephen Harper
“One of the reasons people love sports is because it's non-political. And to the degree that Donald Trump puts sports organizations like golf tournaments in difficult positions, they won't want anything to do with him, i think all of this is evidence that Donald Trump is finding it a lot harder to be a candidate than he probably anticipated.” PeopleThinkingWantLoveReasonPoliticalSportsDifficultPositionTrumpDegreesFindingsEvidenceOrganizationHarderGolfCandidatesTournamentsGolf TournamentsNon Political Author:Ari Fleischer
“There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.” TwoFactsInterestPartyPositionDegreesRangeFactions Author:Noam Chomsky
“Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to be able to master physics; we may say that young people today are suddenly in the position that ordinary common sense no longer suffices to meet the strange demands life makes. Everything has become so intricate that for its mastery an exceptional degree of understanding is required. For it is not enough any longer to be able to play the game well; but the question is again and again: what sort of game is to be played now anyway?” PeopleWayWellsMayLittlesSaidEnoughPlayTodayAbleYoungFoundGamesUnderstandingCommonPositionStrangeMastersDemandDegreesOrdinaryPhysicsCommon SenseMathematicalMasteryAgain And AgainExceptionalPhysicistIntricate Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein
“What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?” MenEarthNamesOpinionPositionDegreesAll ThingsAcademic Author:Hugh Nibley
“When a man ends up in the White House who boasts about not having a clue and who says that specialist knowledge is elite nonsense, then a critical point has been reached. Then you will have an obviously irresponsible man sitting in a position that requires the utmost degree of responsibility.” MenHas BeensEndsHouseWhiteResponsibilityPositionDegreesSittingCriticalNonsenseWhite HouseElitesClueBoastIrresponsibleSpecialists Author:Martin Schulz