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«I hate and love - wherefore I cannot tell, but by my tortures know the fact too well»
«I've come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.»
Author: Dr. Haim Ginott
| About:
Children,
Education,
Teachers and teaching
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«From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.»
Author: Lucretius
| Keywords:
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«I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Boredom
| Keywords:
afterlife, boredom, fearing, tortures
«Passion in all its forms is a mental thirst, a fever, a torturing unrest. As a fire consumes a magnificent building, reducing it to a heap of unsightly ashes, so are men consumed by the flames of passions, and their deeds and works fall and perish.»
«On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
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«I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
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«No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!»
Author: Lord Byron
| Keywords:
tortures
«Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Atheism
| Keywords:
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«My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul»
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