"Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently,……" — Alison Lurie
"Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem."
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Alison Lurie
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11 Quotes by Alison Lurie
Alison Lurie has 11 quotes on this site.
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We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and…
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There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.
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The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the…
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As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
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Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.
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Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world
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When other people first became aware of the cow, they expressed concern and anxiety. They suggested strategies for getting the…
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If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what…
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There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet,…
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We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and…
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More Activity Quotes
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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