"When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning……" — Richard Mitchell
"When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?"
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19 Quotes by Richard Mitchell
Richard Mitchell has 19 quotes on this site.
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Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them…
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Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to…
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People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach…
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Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone should have one.…
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Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar,…
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Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a…
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An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead,…
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If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts,…
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Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.
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If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of…
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Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.
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The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business.…
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More Always Useful Quotes
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To overcome negative emotions, consulting intuition is always useful. How can it guide you. During nervous periods, it offers a…
— Judith Orloff
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It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.
— A A Milne
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Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus…
— Gregory Maguire
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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit... No one likes to…
— James W. Loewen
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Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.
— Isaac Asimov
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It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means…
— Terry Pratchett
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The truth is not always useful, not always good. It’s like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the…
— Iain Banks
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The main thing to do is pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then…
— Jeanne DuPrau
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Change itself is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful.
— Christopher Paolini
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