"Governments have ever been known to hold a high hand over the education of the people. They know, better than anyone else, that their power is based almost entirely on the school. Hence, they monopolize it more and more."

-- Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

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“The only job worse is a javelin catcher at a track - and - field meet.”
“Power is the engine of the world,and sex and money its oil and lubricants.God is at best the invocation before you start the engine-meaningless if you have no engine to start!God is a goli,a multi-flavoured pill,invented by those who have power,money and sex, to give to those who have none! Love is another great goli.Some days we too swallow these golis.They feel good,like a joint,a temporary high!But they are not the reality.The reality is power,money,sex! And yes,there's another goli-morality!”

Source : "The Story of My Assassins: A Novel".
“But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.”

Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 01, 2000.
“People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, â€œIf this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it.â€ They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.”

Source : Heather O'Neill (2016). “Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel”, p.13, HarperCollins
“I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.”
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.”
“Never tripping off the past, I would rather never mind 'em/'Cause only fools trip over something that be behind 'em”
“For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.”

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