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Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.


Stanley Fish


#any #belongs #brought #classroom #forth

The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.


Eduard Hanslick


#assumption #awakens #beautiful #been #course

Proceeding further, to inquire whether the facts related by the Four Evangelists are proved by competent and satisfactory evidence, we are led, first, to consider on which side lies the burden of establishing the credibility of the witnesses.


Simon Greenleaf


#competent #consider #credibility #establishing #evangelists

If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.


Robert Grosseteste


#acres #corn #count #each #how

I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.


Arthur Keith


#authority #be true #because #believed #central

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.


Hermann Broch


#better #hates #information #inquire #know

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.


Horace


#cease #day #forth #future #gift

The People in this Town began to inquire my Business, and because I did not readily inform them, they began to suspect me, and said, that I was come to settle the Indian's Land and they knew I should never go Home again Safe.


Christopher Gist


#because #began #business #come #did

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.


Sterling Hayden


#caucus #crew #democracy #go #inquire

It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.


Franz Boas


#brought #causes #differentiation #establishment #events






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