"Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed."

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Source : Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.161, Verso

Paul Feyerabend

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“Tea Party has now cost the Republicans 5 senate seats. My next donation is going to them.”
“There is a slovenly disrespect for truth and reality that has infected and cross-infected the arts; the values of entertainment are relentlessly in the ascendant, to the extent that it becomes virtually impossible to write a naturalistic fictional sentence without feeling that the fabric of that sentence is already compromised.”
“I think filmmakers, in general... There are some awesome, really great filmmakers - but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they are the biggest bunch of whiny, over-paid babies on the planet.”
“You try to play the song better than you had before.”

Source : Source: myglobalmind.com
“Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.”
“It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.”
“For me, I was literally trying to stay afloat. I never actually thought I would get my own sketch show. So the idea that one day I would have my own show is pretty wild. But once I got it, I thought, 'Yeah, this is exactly what I always wanted to do.”
“I lead with my heart all the time.”

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