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«Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystallizes the optical illusion, consolidates it with book learning, theoretically legitimizes the traditional trash and trains the children to know without understanding and to accept denominations for definitions. Astray in his conceptions, entangled in words, man loses the flair for truth, the taste for nature. What a powerful intellect must you possess, to be suspicious of this moral carbon dioxide and with your head swimming already, to hurl yourself out of it into the fresh air, with which, into the bargain, everyone round is trying to scare you!»
Author: Alexander Herzen
| Keywords:
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«If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains -- then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
abortions, aspirin, at risk, bellies, cigarette, cirrhosis, classified, classify, commuter, commuters, controversial, emergency, fainting, onto, pregnancies, pregnancy, sexually, sexually transmitted, sexually transmitted disease, stiff, stiffest, stiffing, subject to, swell, trains, transmitted
«If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.»
«Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.»
Author: John Lubbock
(Biologist, Politician)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
color, colors, elements, Human eye, purest, The Eye, trains, unquestionably
«Commuter trains are packed with voyeurs of a similar bent.»
«Discipline trains you to put up with disappointments, every rose has a thorn.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
disappointments, discipline, In Training, put up, rose, thorn, trains
«Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.»
«As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. . . .»
«Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.»
«Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.»
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bubbles, flower power, knaves, plants, power plant, sows, trains
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