"No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education."

-- Pearl S. Buck

#Education Quotes #Brain Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“Boxing is a buzz, but I went into it to make a living. I wasn't going to go into the ring and get punched in the head for the fun of it.”
“I have two Filipino nannies who have British passport and not me. I don't need British passport. When you were running around in an animal skin, my ancestors were building the pyramids.”

Source : "Pharaoh's revenge" by Stephen Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.
“I feel like a ***** hippie, I tell you.”
“Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.”
“To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.”
“If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.”
“For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.”
“Fate is written in the face.”

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