"I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall."

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Source : Isaac Deutscher (2003). “The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921”, p.7, Verso

Isaac Deutscher

#Fall Quotes #Loss Quotes #Men Quotes

“People have never lost what they think they have.”

Source : Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “Parents and children”
“I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.”
“If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.”
“The school system is constructed to praise you if you get high grades. And if you get straight A's, you're the one that everyone puts forward, and they prognosticate that the straight-A person is the one most likely to succeed, because that's the way the school system is constructed and conceived.”
“I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left.”
“It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.”
“The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.”

Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.174, Routledge
“The important outcomes of schooling include not only the acquisition of new conceptual tools, refined sensibilities, a developed imagination, and new routines and techniques, but also new attitudes and dispositions. The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.”

Source : Elliot W. Eisner (2002). “The Arts and the Creation of Mind”, p.240, Yale University Press

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