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Fred
Allen
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| "Politics
is supposed be the second oldest profession. I have come to realise that
it
Ronald Reagan
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from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological,
computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.."
Saul Alinsky
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Heraclitus
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Mark Twain
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Oscar Wilde
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Reinhold
Niebuhr, The Serenity Prayer (1934)
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Carl
Sagan (1987)
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Roderick
Scobie (2004)
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W. Edwards
Deming (1900 - 1993)
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Yoda
('The Empire Strikes Back')
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Don Quixote
- "Man of La Mancha"
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function of education has never been to free the mind and spirit of man,
but to bind them; and to the end that the mind and spirit of his children
should never escape Homo sapiens has employed praise, ridicule, admonition,
accusation, mutilation, and even torture to chain them to the culture pattern
. . . for where every man is unique there is no society, and where there
is no society there can be no man. Contemporary American educators think
they want creative children, yet it is an open question as to what they
expect these children to create. And certainly the classrooms –
from kindergarten to graduate school –
in which they expect it to happen are not crucibles of creative activity
and thought. It stands to reason that were young people truly creative
the culture would fall apart, for originality, by definition, is different
from what is given, and what is given is the culture itself. From the endless,
pathetic, "creative hours" of kindergarten to the most abstruse problems
in sociology and anthropology, the function of education is to prevent
the truly creative intellect from getting out of hand.
Jules
Henry, Culture Against Man
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Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as
we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view that all
sexual intercourse, even within marriage, is regrettable. A view of this
sort, which goes against biological facts, can only be regarded by sane
people as a morbid aberration. The fact that it is embedded in Christian
ethics has made Christianity throughout its whole history a force tending
towards mental disorders and unwholesome views of life.
Bertrand
Russell
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Socrates
(470-399 B.C.)
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Emile
Durkheim, 1933, p.226
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Voltaire
(1694-1778)
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Gilbert
Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
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George
Washington Carver (1864-1943)
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any government . . . undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not
read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result
is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty
little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked;
contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind
is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything -- you
can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.
Robert
A. Heinlein, If This Goes On...
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Mark
Twain (1835-1910)
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aware the boy failed my grade school math class, I take it? And not that
many years later he's teaching college. Now I ask you: Is that the
sorriest indictment of the educational system you ever heard? [pauses to
light cigarette.] No aptitude at all for long division, but never
mind. It's him they ask to split the atom. How he talked his way
into the Nobel prize is beyond me. But then, I suppose it's like
the man says, "It's not what you know..."
Karl
Arbeiter: former teacher of Albert Einstein
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Henry
Ford
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"What
you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do especially in
other people's minds. When you're travelling, you are what you are right
there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays
on the road."
William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways |
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Thomas
Jefferson (1743-1826)
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Isaac Newton
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Oscar Wilde
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Al Capone
(1899-1947)
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is worth noting that the word family originally meant a band of slaves.
Even after the word came to apply to people affiliated by blood and marriage,
for many centuries the notion of family referred to authority relations
rather than love ones. The sentimentalization of family life and female
nurturing was historically and functionally linked to the emergence of
competitive individualism and formal egalitarianism for men.
Stephanie
Coontz, The Way We Never Were, pp. 43-44
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a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase.
. . . the human question is not how many can possibly survive within the
system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.
Frank
Herbert, Dune
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Albert
Einstein (1879-1955)
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Gloria
Steinem
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Doris Lessing
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