"At its fundamentally flawed core, the aim of almost any learning program is to help us become who we are not."

-- Tom Rath

#Who We Are Quotes #Helping Quotes #Program Quotes

“First of all I trust my own instinct, experience that I gained over years and feeling when the moment is right for buying shares. That is what one calls intuition.”
“Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman”
“I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing to do with the common music of this era. I was experimenting, I was searching for something new.”
“Soviets always use words which mean almost the reverse of what they mean to us. So peaceful co-existence does not in any way mean peaceful.”

Source : "Soviet Plans to Spread Communism". WGBH Educational Foundation Interview, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. February 12, 1987.
“Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. ... Civilization has promised man freedom, at the cost of giving up everything dear to him, which it arrogantly treated as lies and fantasies. ... Hour by hour needs increase and are nearly always unsatisfied, peopling the earth with discontented rebels. The superfluous has become a necessity and luxuries indispensable.”
“Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same time decreases those labeled 'you' or 'them' until that category has no one left in it.”
“Humankind can't stand too much reality.”
“When I was 12 years old, I was obsessed with codes, conspiracies, and secret messages. I would record TV commercials with SoundRecorder.exe on Windows 95 and reverse them to see if I was being subliminally influenced to watch PokÃ©mon by Japanese spies.”

Source : "Gravity Falls' Alex Hirsch on his show's big cliffhanger". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. November 3, 2015.

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