Departure Quote by William A. Henry III

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“Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.”

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Opportunity does not need to be exactly equal. It needs only to exist. For the talented and motivated, that will be enough...The vital thing…

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Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed…

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“It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.”

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In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success.

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Ultimately it is the yearning to believe that anyone can be brought up to college level that has brought colleges down to everyone's level.

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No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to…

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The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding…

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One's worth and self-regard ought to come from individual competitive performance, not from group identity. Pride based on clan or tribal connections is atavistic.…

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The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.

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It is a commonplace observation that liberals believe in the perfectibility of man while conservatives believe in the endurance of original sin. Superficially, that…

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A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.

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The fact is that some people are better than others - smarter, harder working, more learned, more productive, harder to replace.

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The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

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Science sees the process of evolution from the outside, as one might a train of cars going by, and resolves it into the physical…

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Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not…

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“Never before did I feel so bound by the chains of the soul. Never before was there such pain of ripping my heart apart…

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Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. It is a corrective to the sluggishness of…

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Departure should be sudden.

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Our Lord Jesus Christ, a little before his departure, commissioned his apostles to Go, and teach all nations; or, as another evangelist expresses it,…

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