"A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding...."

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.”

Source : "The Female Man". Book by Joanna Russ (Part 2, Chapter 5, p. 22), February 1975.
“If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?”
“The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.”
“I just always felt I'd be playing football in the NFL - or at least playing for a living.”
“I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.”
“I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.”
“Does anyone believe for one moment that the progress we have made would have been possible under bureaucratic control of any government. This country was founded upon the principle of the regulation of private effort, of making rules for the game, and under that system alone can we look for the same success in the future which has been ours in the past. Our position today is the direct result of the free play among our people of private competitive effort.”
“I began realizing that it wasn't important for me to concern myself with the perception of truth.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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