"I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive."

-- John W. Gardner

#Education Quotes #School Quotes #Years Quotes

“emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea...”
“I battle to fall asleep at night. My mind races every other night. I have always been like this, for as long as I can reminder.”
“How could she tell him that we come to love those who save us?”
“Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.”

Source : Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.74, Simon and Schuster
“Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.”
“Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.”
“One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.”
“Nobody is trying to save energy. We're trying to shift our use of fuel. Forget saving energy; if we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts.”

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