"The accumulation of facts, even if interesting in themselves, should not constitute the main part of education; these facts, whether they be of classical learning or knick-knacks of history, will be of little use unless the mind has been trained to see them in proper perspective."

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Source : Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

Arthur Lynch

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“To be a mother is a great treasure. Mothers, in their unconditional and sacrificial love for their children, are the antidote to individualism; they are the greatest enemies against war.”
“The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.”
“It's never good to fall in love with someone whom you'd have to stab in the eyeballs to elicit a response.”
“Newspapers are the world's mirrors.”
“It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave.”

Source : Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.143, Feminist Press at CUNY
“The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.”
“If Diet Coke did not exist it would have been neccessary to invent it.”
“It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental.”

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