"One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction."

-- John Taylor Gatto

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“Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.”

Source : B.K.S. Iyengar (2014). “BKS Iyengar Yoga The Path to Holistic Health”, p.35, Dorling Kindersley Ltd
“I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.”
“But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.”
“To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.”
“It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.”
“As a kid, I was a huge fan of movies and acting. My mom was in the sort of community theater, and I always hung around down there, and I was a massive fan of everything I'm kind of involved in now. But fairly ordinary and cheeky.”
“Think about all the tomorrows of your life.”
“Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.”

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