"Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Children Quotes #Age Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“These are the times for which we were born.”
“Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.”
“Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.”
“I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.”
“You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?”
“The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: he looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.”
“When I propose a candidate for a job I don't do it because the person in question is the best but because he is the one the client will employ. I provide them with a head that is good enough, placed on a body they want. [...] The world is full of people who pay serious money for bad pictures by good artists. And mediocre heads on tall bodies.”
“I regard a human being as simply a human being, whether he is from this world or another, or whether he is a beggar, or God in person, and whether he is ignorant or wise, they are all of equal right. No one has more right than any other, and nobody is more than any other.”

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