Gordon Pask famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
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Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
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Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.
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The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
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You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
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One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.
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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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