Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art
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The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you.
Interpretation
A supportive teacher can ignite a student's ambition and potential.
This quote emphasizes the crucial role of educators in shaping the aspirations and self-belief of their students. When a teacher believes in a student's capabilities, it can inspire the student to pursue their dreams and strive for success, highlighting the profound impact that encouragement and faith from mentors can have on an individual's journey.
In practice
In a graduation speech to inspire students to remember their mentors.
Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art
Only votes talk, everything else walks.
From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it.
A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.
Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.
I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: 'Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.'
In the 1970s, what I, as a young foreign student studying in the United States, found most dynamic, exciting and impressive about this country is what much of the world continues to value most about the U.S. today: its open intellectual culture, its great universities, its capacity for discovery and innovation.
All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.
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