"People think if they voted for somebody, they should reflexively defend everything they do or say. And if you voted against somebody, you should just as reflexively oppose everything they do or say. It's not very helpful. What's more constructive for our kids is to go on a case-by-case basis, evaluating particular policies."

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Source : Source: abcnews.go.com

Benjamin E. Sasse

#Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.”
“Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized gathering of connoiseurs and the spoilt at a spotlit parade of snazzy pulchritude, it is an industrialized version of the pagan festivals of renewal. At the end of each seasonal display, a priesthood is enjoined to carry news of the omens to the masses.”
“Roddenberry had his own utopian vision about he perfectibility of man, and I never really believed that. And I donâ€™t think the show demonstrates that. I think it is about gunboat diplomacy. In the final analysis, the Enterprise fires. Theyâ€™re always shooting and bringing civilization, and coming to worlds where they donâ€™t approve of tyrannical enterprises â€“ no pun intended â€“ and they substitute their own quote unquote enlightened version of how society is supposed to work, which is essentially American.”
“We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.”
“Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.”

Source : Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr
“Do not focus too much on the east and forget the west. And do not ignore the south, to speak for the north. What happens in the east has effects in the north, as the west has in the south. And do not focus on one species and ignore the other. Or love your father but ignore your mother, or love your sister but ignore your brother. Do not forget each other. We are all part of each other. We are all ONE.”
“South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Most songs come from being attentive. Attentive to life, attentive to scripture, attentive to your heart. Pay attention!”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 18, 2014

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