"Democracy is a small hard core of common……" — James Bryant Conant
"Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences."
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20 Quotes by James Bryant Conant
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Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations,…
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Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. .…
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In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a…
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A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a…
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Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.
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Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.
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He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.
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Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.
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The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.
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Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.
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Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country…
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Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuos development of new concepts.
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More Agreement Quotes
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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also…
— Aristotle
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
— Bashar al-Assad
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We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.
— Gerry Adams
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The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended…
— Gerry Adams
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The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive…
— Gerry Adams
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My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.
— Roseanne Barr
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements,…
— Xavier Becerra
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will…
— Sitting Bull
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
— Edmund Burke
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over,…
— Lord Byron
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