"Learning means change."

-- Bart Kosko

“I don't think she ever had a single initiative at the United Nations that was not previously [vetted] by the people at the State Department, approved of, and authorized. She did manage to get around the world an awful lot, and find other parts of her vast slum project that needed repair. But I don't think that that was the main point. The main point was that she, after all, connoted Franklin Roosevelt, who by then was long dead, and had a certain prestige and power on that account.”
“We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all creativity. While there is no way of fully understanding the origin moment of the universe we can appreciate the direction of evolution in its larger arc of development as moving from lesser to great complexity in structure and from lesser to greater modes of consciousness. We can also understand the governing principles of evolution in terms of its three movements toward differentiation, inner spontaneity, and comprehensive bonding.”
“Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives.”
“A man never rises higher than when he does not know whither his path can still lead him.”
“And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?”

Source : Owen Barfield (1973). “Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning”, p.67, Wesleyan University Press
“If you #â€Ž love love, look for yourself.”
“If youâ€™re feeling good, then youâ€™re creating a future thatâ€™s on track with your desires. If youâ€™re feeling bad, youâ€™re creating a future thatâ€™s off track with your desires. As you go about your day, the law of attraction is working in every second. Everything we think and feel is creating our future. If youâ€™re worried or in fear, then youâ€™re bringing more of that into your life throughout the day.”
“The process of education is not generally a process of teaching people to think and ask questions. It ... is mostly one of teaching the young what is and getting them into a mood where they will go on keeping it that way.”

Source : Elizabeth Hawes (1939). “Men can take it”

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