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Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the…
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I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.
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School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull…
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The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into…
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The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will…
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Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.
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The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them…
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This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now…
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Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to…
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Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by…
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Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months…
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Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame…
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty…
— Samuel Adams
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All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control…
— Isaiah Berlin
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To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw…
— Maya Angelou
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Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is,…
— Jimmy Doolittle
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When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce,…
— Ayn Rand
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I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the…
— J. G. Ballard
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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..
— Francis Picabia
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Gauntlets are the stuff of every life, but when you learn young how to pick them up, how to work them against…
— Marlena De Blasi
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[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character…
— Jean-Paul Marat
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Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you.
— Harry Browne
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Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with…
— Tom Daschle
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If ur going to have a war on drugs, have them against ALL drugs, including alcohol, the number one offender.
— Bill Hicks
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