"Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems."

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Source : Ellen Key (2016). “The century of the child”, p.99, Ellen Key

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“The most important thing, of course, is that you should look more stunning than you have ever looked in your life. How many excuses do you have to wear a dress bigger than anyone else's, at a party just for you, where everyone has to burst into tears from how gorgeous you look while you prance around in front of them? Remember, your lifelong happiness depends on this one article of clothing. If it doesn't look good, you're not a bride. You're just some idiot in a big white thing - a color unflattering to about 93 percent of the population.”
“Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet.”

Source : George Leonard (2001). “The Ultimate Athlete”, p.254, North Atlantic Books
“Thus did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.”
“The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source of all his ethical thought and all his concepts of morality; not the outcome of primitive credulity which a more "enlightened" age could outgrow, but the only answer to a real, basic need of man at all times and in all environments. In another word, it is an instinct.”

Source : Muhammad Asad (1961). “The Principles of State and Government in Islam”, p.10, Univ of California Press
“Seriously, when's the last time you saw me wear shorts?”
“While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on fundamentals, to cure the madness of the age, and find a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell.”

Source : "The autobiographical pact: otherness and redemption in four French avant-garde artists". Book by Cosana Maria Eram, p. 20, 2010.
“Who lives longer? The man who takes ***** for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.”
“By the Grace of God, I am cured of the disease of egotism, and Death no longer terrifies me.”

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