"Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives."

-- Mortimer Adler

#Education Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Daily Life Quotes

“Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; 'Tis we who lose the honey sound Amid the clamor all around That beats the whole day long.”

Source : Rose Fyleman, “White Magic”
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!”
“I don't hide anything about my life, I talk about everything. I talk about it - all kinds of things. I've done songs about bad experiences, a couple about growing up in the ghetto and being abused, sexually. Being raped. And I talk about it.”

Source : Interview with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, believermag.com. July 1, 2010.
“The marines gave me an eternal discipline.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.”
“Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity.”
“As the saffron tints and crimson flushes of morn herald the coming day, so the social and political advancement which woman has already gained bears the promise of the rising of the full-orbed sun of emancipation. The result will be not to make home less happy, but society more holy.”
“With comedy, you get an immediate response. I'm the whole kit and the kaboodle. I am the whole thing and can steer the whole situation how I want to. With film, you are basically in one area. Comedy is straight to it and the film is heavily shaped the camera and editing, so it's different.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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