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“It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Too often, it seems to me, in missionary and educational work among underdeveloped races, people yield to the temptation of doing that which was… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“You could not moralize children out of growing up. Or teach them how to do it.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Parents: Perfecting ways to humiliate their children since the dawn of time.” — Shannon Messenger Copy Share Image
“All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“... it's pointless to think in moral terms when everything is permissible. We have become the people we detest. We have lost the capacity… — Eric Gamalinda Copy Share Image
“The child tends to be stripped of all social influences but those of the market place, all sense of place, function and class is… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
“how a people who had raised such mighty works, could have allowed themselves to be conquered by illiterate barbarians.” — Ross Laidlaw Copy Share Image
“I want to terrify little kids, too! I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“The boys spoke in loud, angry voices about tyranny and freedom. The girls watched the boys strut. The ancient, animal story, the same whether… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“So our job as parents is not to make a particular kind of child. Instead, our job is to provide a protected space of… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Solitude favors the original, the daringly and otherworldly beautiful, the poem. But it also favors the wrongful, the extreme, the absurd, and the forbidden.” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“But what would be our readers’ reaction if we simply refused to get to the bottom of that question?” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“O, čarobna organsko lepoto, koja se ne sastojiš ni iz uljane boje ni iz kamena, već iz materije žive i raspadljive, pune grozničave tajne… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“I hope that you have nothing against malice, my good engineer. In my eyes it is the brightest sword that reason has against the… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes,… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“A stimulus is a stimulus. The body doesn't give a damn about the meaning of the stimulus. Whether minnows or communion, the sebaceous glands… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
