"It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world."

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Source : Timothy B. Tyson (2007). “Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story”, p.275, Broadway Books

Timothy B. Tyson

#Loyalty Quotes #Lying Quotes #Order Quotes

“I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of peace , I, who have sent armies into fire and soldiers to their death , say today: We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in the war for peace.”

Source : Yitzhak Rabin's speech to the US Congress, July 26, 1994.
“I am just glad that I can take the music to the people who want to hear it. I love my audiences. I am deeply indebted to them for giving me the chance to sing my concerts, make records, and do what I love. Whatever people call it, it is great to have a voice!”
“I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A man must walk only his own path...Never another's or his feet will grow tired and sore. And he will feel lost even when he arrives.”
“Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are; And while the ship right onward leaps, Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps. Parch not your life with dry despair; The stream of hope flow everywhere-- So under every sky and star, Just drop your bucket where you are.”

Source : "Opportunity", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 570-72,
“If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.”
“Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process as it seeks actualisation. Moreover, it does not obey the objective concepts of time and space that belong to the physical world. When the discussion of time and space is imported into linguistic art from scientific aims and research methods, that linguistic art is entirely reduced to trifling pseudo-philosophical issues.”

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