"Every dogma must have its day."

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Carolyn Wells

“Health education emphasizing risks is a form of pedagogy, which, like other forms, serves to legitimize ideologies and social practices. Risk discourse in the public health sphere allows the state, as the owner of knowledge, to exert power of the bodies of its citizens. Risk discourse, therefore, especially when it emphasizes lifestyle risks, serves as an effective Foucauldian agent of surveillance and control that is difficult to challenge because of its manifest benevolent goal of maintaining standards of health. In doing so, it draws attention away from the structural causes of ill-health.”
“The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.”
“Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.”

Source : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.”
“We are in need of a way out of our poverty of soul and the desperate state of our human condition. We find it in this child lying in a manger, who was and is Jesus Christ, the long-promised Messiah, Seed, Redeemer, and King.”
“A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their composition. The mind in beast and bird, as in man, is the main thing.”

Source : William Henry Hudson (1923). “Collected Works”
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”
“Let me arise and open the gate, to breathe the wild warm air of the heath, And to let in Love, and to let out Hate, And anger at living and scorn of Fate, To let in Life, and to let out Death.”

Source : Violet Fane (1880). “Collected Verses”

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