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Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

~Comte De Lautreamont

Topics: Alone Balance Faculties Fundamental Genius Health Intelligence Other Plus Qualities Quality Sums Supreme Taste Through Up Which

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In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough. What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Ability Artistry Associated Brain Characteristics Empathy Enough Faculties Hemisphere Important Kind Left Linear Many Matter Most Now Professions Right Side Still Thinking Those Used Were

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In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.

~Daniel H. Pink

Topics: Ability Associated Brain Enough Faculties Kind Left Linear Many Matter Most Professions Side Still Those Used Were

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Life ain't a drama. And life isn't just a comedy. Life is sometimes horrifying. Life is science-fiction. There are all elements and faculties that we navigate, so I just expect a script to reflect that. As long as it's truthful. I think genre-bending is just being honest.

~Daniel Kaluuya

Topics: Being Being Honest Comedy Drama Elements Expect Faculties Honest Horrifying Just Life Long Navigate Reflect Science-Fiction Script Sometimes Think Truthful I Think

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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.

~Derek Bok

Topics: Any Choices Cognitive Debating Despite Development Difference Different Education Faculties General Hours Lead Make Models Rarely Significant Spent

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Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught by untrained graduate students and underpaid adjunct teachers.

~Derek Bok

Topics: Achieve Courses Faculties Foreign Frequently Goals Graduate Important Inadequate Languages Methods Often Students Taught Teachers Teaching Trying Underpaid Writing

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There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, unless hourly combated, will overcome and destroy the best faculties of our minds and paralyze our most useful powers.

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Best Desire Destroy Disposition Escape Faculties Indulgence Labor Minds Most Nature Our Overcome Paralyze Powers Secret Unless Useful Which Will

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Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

~E. Stanley Jones

Topics: Co-Operation Continuing Creation Exercise Faculties Given God Had He Intentions Links Maker Mind Out Prayer Purest Series Us Work Work Out

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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

~Edgar Rice Burroughs

Topics: Apparent Becomes Brain Conversations Direction Faculties Listens Little More Ordinary Organs Part Reasoning Take Vocal

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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

~Edward Albee

Topics: American Both Critics Dull Faculties Like Universities

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