"For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state."

-- John Milton

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“I loathed every day and regret every moment I spent in a school.”
“Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in a production system. They are specialists in opening small packages. They give the string a tug but do it carefully. They don't yet know what's in the box. They don't know if it's breakable.”

Source : Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope”, p.10, Crown
“Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes,”
“I myself am hell; nobody's here”

Source : 'Skunk Hour' (1959) st. 5
“I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.”
“Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for color's sake is like thinking of sound for sound's sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.”
“In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I'm gonna stand my ground, and I won't back down...”
“I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.”

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