#faculty

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration. ↗

— Michel Gondry

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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

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By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children. ↗

— Mark Foley

#catholic #catholic schools #centered #character #children

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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As far as YU faculty and students are concerned, the love for Israel is very strong. Probably about three thousand of our graduates have settled in Israel. On average, every year 650 male and female students study in Israel for a minimum of one year. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#as far as #average #concerned #every #faculty

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty. ↗

— Jon Porter

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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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