peda Quotes and Quotations
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peda Quotes and Quotations
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire. Lance Armstrong | top
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Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. Henry S. Canby | top
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The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth. Carlo Azeglio Ciampi | top
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'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. William Congreve | top
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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. Desiderius Erasmus | top
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I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic; it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit. Joe Flanigan | top
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I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs! Kirk Hammett | top
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. Oliver Wendell Holmes | top
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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart? Johann Kaspar Lavater | top
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Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy. Anne Sullivan Macy | top
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Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture. Albert J. Nock | top
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Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture. Albert J. Nock | top
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The wages of pedantry is pain. Carroll O'Connor | top
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Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. George Orwell | top
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Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling. Claude Pepper | top
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Our economy is on the move and we are creating thousands of new jobs, but we need to keep our foot on the gas pedal. Mitt Romney | top
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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. Arthur Schopenhauer | top
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I just have some restaurants to just go and eat there. Do mean places to watch people? I like to go shopping look for guitars and stuff with my friends. Look at Meyer, great old instruments, talk about pedals and stuff. Jason Schwartzman | top
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. George Bernard Shaw | top
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I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad. Jimmy Smith | top
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It's about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it. Brandon Thomas | top
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My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen. George Weinberg | top
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Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. Alfred North Whitehead | top
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A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. Niklaus Wirth | top
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I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone. Steven Wright | top
