#trolling

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#accustomed #beings #controlling #events #having

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#controlling #court #fundamental #individuals #interest

In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms. ↗

— Chuck Norris

#america #back #become #change #classrooms

My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#analysis #cell #controlling #crucial #cycle

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#child #citizen #controlling #existence #government

To not judge is to be like a peach. We shrink our space by giving up controlling others. Instead, we focus on controlling ourselves. We set others free to be who they are. ↗

— John Kuypers

#faith #non-judgmental #relationships #spriituality #faith

Authentic leaders are often accused of being "controlling" by those who idly sit by and do nothing ↗

— John Paul Warren

#controlling #leadership #pastor-john-paul-warren #leadership

You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator. ↗

— Dick Murphy

#being #biggest #controlling #impact #important

There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#calculations #controlling #down #labs #large

The problem with the evangelical homeschool movement was not their desire to educate their children at home, or in private religious schools, but the evangelical impulse to "protect" children from ideas that might lead them to "question" and to keep them cloistered in what amounted to a series of one-family gated communities. Frank Schaeffer ↗

— Frank Schaeffer

#critical-thinking #evangelical #free-thought #homeschool #religious-right