"I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment."

-- George Orwell

#Education Quotes #Punishment Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator.”

Source : Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson (2010). “Dune: The Butlerian Jihad”, p.328, Macmillan
“I learned that surrounding myself with people who are able to help me is like being surrounded by tangible godliness.”
“Conceit causes more conversation than wit.”
“All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us-by commercial forces, by advertising agencies, by TV broadcasters. It felt like we were no longer singing our songs and telling stories, and generating our culture from the bottom up, but now we were somehow being spoon-fed this commercial culture top down.”
“You cannot take all the chances you get.”
“My first experience with football was not very good because I didn't plan on playing football. I was just playing hookie one day and I was a sophomore and decided not to go to class. And the principal - normally he does his rounds and I thought I had him down pretty good where he was going to be - he sort of walked up behind me and scared me. He noticed I could run real fast. So that's how I got introduced to football.”
“Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene”
“Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.”

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