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“I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.”
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“The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.”
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“Life is just a chance to grow a soul.”
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“You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.”
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“If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.”
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“Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.”
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“A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.”
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“Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.”
Source : A. C. Grayling (2009). “Liberty in the Age of Terror: A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Values”, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.”
Source : A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Original Bliss”, p.74, Random House
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“A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.”
Source : Amish Tripathi (2012). “The Immortals of Meluha: The Shiva Trilogy”, p.78, Hachette UK
