Flora Lewis quotes
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“Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.”
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“Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.”
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“I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.”
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“We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.”
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“Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.”
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“Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.”
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“There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.”
-- Flora Lewis
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“You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.”
Source : "Creating We : Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking and Build a Healthy, Thriving Organization". Book by Judith Glaser (p. 144), 2007.
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“Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.”
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Source : Song: Love Chronicles, Album: Love Chronicles
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“A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.”
Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
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Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.218, Simon and Schuster
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