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Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body. Jean Cocteau
Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their valleys can understand why I wish to describe and depict these magic scenes for others. Mikhail Lermontov
Anne Frank quote: "Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can..."
Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point. Anne Frank
Baruch Spinoza quote: "There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope."
There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope. Baruch Spinoza
John Henry Newman quote: "Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it."
Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it. John Henry Newman
Most problems of teaching are not problems of growth but helping cultivate growth. As far as I know, and this is only from personal experience in teaching, I think about ninety percent of the problem in teaching, or maybe ninety-eight percent, is just to help the students get interested. Or what it usually amounts to is to not prevent them from being interested. Typically they come in interested, and the process of education is a way of driving that defect out of their minds. But if... Noam Chomsky
Only because I prefer a positive to a negative. In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all. George Orwell
Isaac Asimov quote: "Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. ..."
Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them. Isaac Asimov
This is a school,' said Pete in his level voice. 'All views can be expressed and considered here. We're not indoctrinating you.' Yes, well,' Hochschwender replied coolly, 'that's a matter of point of view. John Knowles
And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe. John Steinbeck
Saul Bellow quote: "Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek..."
Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities. Saul Bellow
The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged. Tom Robbins
Mark Twain quote: "Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you..."
Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again. Mark Twain
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Now is no timeto think of what you do not have. Think of what..."
Now is no timeto think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is Ernest Hemingway
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code. Carl Jung

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