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Michel de Montaigne quote: "Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without..."
Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement. Michel de Montaigne
Parent power is not a sign of democracy, it is a sign of barbarism. We are to regard education as a service industry, like a laundry, parents are the customers, teachers the washers, children the dirty linen. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. And what in the name of boiling hell do parents know about education? How many educated people are there in the world? I could name seventeen or eighteen. Stephen Fry
I dream that I have found us both again, With spring so many strangers' lives away, And we, so free, Out walking by the sea, With someone else's paper words to say.... They took us at the gates of green return, Too lost by then to stop, and ask them why- Do children meet again? Does any trace remain, Along the superhighways of July? Thomas Pynchon
Why do you seem so annoyed at what I'm saying?"Because we're too much like each other. I loathe your face, which is a caricature of mine, I loathe your voice, which is a mockery of mine, I loathe your pathetic syntax, which is my own. Jorge Luis Borges
Life's existential tasks have lost the interest of reality; illusion cannot build a sanctuary for the divine growth of inwardness which ripens to decisions. One man is curious about another, every one is undecided, and their way of escape is to say that some one must come who will do something--and then they will bet on him. Soren Kierkegaard
On principle' one can do anything and what one does is, fundamentally, a matter of indifference, just as a man's life remains insignificant even though 'on principle' he gives his support to all the 'needs of the times. Soren Kierkegaard
Henry David Thoreau quote: "A man's riches are based on what he can do without."
A man's riches are based on what he can do without. Henry David Thoreau
What a strange demented feeling it gives me when I realize that I have spent whole days before this inkstone, with nothing better to do, jotting down at random whatever nonsensical thoughts have entered my head. Yoshida Kenko
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "I know what the Greeks do not know, incertitude."
I know what the Greeks do not know, incertitude. Jorge Luis Borges
I've learned to do without a lot of things. If you have a lot of things, said Aunt Lydia, you get too attached to this material world and you forget about spiritual values. Margaret Atwood
Cornelia Funke quote: "What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?"
What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story? Cornelia Funke
How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age. Margaret Atwood
Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them. Robert A. Heinlein
Jean-Luc Godard quote: "i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a..."
i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle. Jean-Luc Godard
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Finishing is what you have to do. If you don't finish, nothing..."
Finishing is what you have to do. If you don't finish, nothing is worth a damn Ernest Hemingway

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