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“Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference.”
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“The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.”
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“Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.”
Source : Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.31, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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“It's hard to field the ball when you have both hands around your throat.”
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“In a corner of the churchyard grew a plantation of white violets, enormously plump and prosperous-looking. ... I saw the dead stretched out under me in the earth, feeding these flowers with a thin milk drawn from their bones.”
Source : Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books
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“There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.”
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“Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts”
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“Your capacity to love is your capacity to experience the I of another.”
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“When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.”
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“Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, against the lack and loss of animal delights. How essential it is, then, in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.”
Source : "A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More".
