"It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?"

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Source : Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1986). “Teacher”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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“People keep saying, How'd you get power? Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it.”
“Coitus is random, children are definite.”
“The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.”
“And let us not trust to human effort alone, but humbly acknowledging the power and goodness of Almighty God, who presides over the destiny of nations, and who has at all times been revealed in our country's history, let us invoke His aid and His blessings upon our labors.”
“I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my own eyes, making my own mistakes, viewing exhibitions the way most of their audience sees them.”
“I like to be confident, absolutely not cocky, and I like to have that healthy fear of my opponents. It keeps me on my toes.”
“Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.”
“With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.”

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