"How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans."

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Kamila Shamsie

#Flower Quotes #School Quotes #Garden Quotes

“Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian people.”
“Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished”
“It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.”
“Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.”
“Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904”

Source : Edward Thomas (2011). “Selected Poems of Edward Thomas”, p.41, Faber & Faber
“Fear is a good thing because it keeps you alive, but if it becomes so great that it hinders you from doing what you want, you need to confront it head-on”
“If you neglect your blogs they don't take up much time.”

Source : Source: keeperofthesnails.blogspot.com
“The more one emphasizes winning, the less he or she is able to concentrate on what actually causes success.”

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