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The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past. ↗

— Ruth J. Simmons

#campus #committee #community #designed #discovery

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#discretion #else #every #every man #forget

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#discerning #high #high quality #identifying #implies

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man. ↗

— Diogenes

#man #takes #wise #wise man

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. ↗

— John Donne

#much #than #wicked #worse

A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement. ↗

— James H. Douglas

#contributes #discipline #family #fosters #good

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#discovery #give #great #i #joy

I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#constantly #discovered #encounter #feel #feeling

Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too. ↗

— Edward Fitzgerald

#darkness #discover #door #must #myriads