Stephanie S. Tolan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better.
-- Stephanie S. Tolan

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Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.
-- Stephanie S. Tolan

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Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.
-- Stephanie S. Tolan

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How do we know imagination isn't just a different way of knowing something? A message from outside.
-- Stephanie S. Tolan

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Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource.
-- Stephanie S. Tolan

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I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.
Once you start working out, you feel better and it becomes something you make time to do.
As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion....if the next thing you're going to say makes you feel better, then it's probably the wrong thing to say. This is one of the finer maxims that I've discovered in life. And you can have it, since it's been of no use to me.
For many of these people the social is just a mirror of themselves. I'm not against the social, but I want something genuinely social, not something that has been fetishized as social so that a group of people can feel better about themselves.
People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.

Stephanie S. Tolan famous quotes

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