"A first hint of the power of the electronic media to bring disaster directly into living rooms came with the radio broadcast of the explosion of the zeppelin "Hindenburg," in 1937 . . ."

-- R. W. Apple

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“Jack and Jill ran up the hill, both for a little fun. Jack's plan was deception while Jill sought affection. And Jack wouldn't quit till he won.”
“Black eyeliner says 'You've been through stuff, you know things'.”
“I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.”
“We each need to make peace with our own memories. We have all done things that make us flinch.”

Source : Lama Surya Das (2010). “Awakening To The Sacred”, p.104, Random House
“If you give what you do not need, it is not giving.”
“But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his ***** ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.”

Source : Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (2009). “God and the State”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.
“The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.”
“Pedagogy must be oriented not to the yesterday, but to the tomorrow of the child's development. Only then can it call to life in the process of education those processes of development which now lie in the zone of proximal development”

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