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- To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the…
- Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects and factions, and…
- Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the…
- We have already noticed the difference in the attitude of a spectator and of an agent or participant. The former is indifferent to what is…
- [T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition that…
- Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for…
- Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems…
- As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help…
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- Beautician: the official occupation of the 'I wear too much make-up fat girl'. — Nikhil Saluja
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- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
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- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold