"To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin."

-- Algernon Charles Swinburne

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“I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in the school to impose certain ideas or to form certain habits in the child, but is there as a member of the community to select the influences which shall affect the child and to assist him in properly responding to these influences.”

Source : John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.231, Indiana University Press
“I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run around her empty house without any clothes on, even once she was too old for that. Nothing embarrassed her. I admired that so much, because everything embarrassed me, and that hurt me. She loved to jump on her bed. She jumped on her bed for so many years that one afternoon, while I watched her jump, the seams burst. Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasnâ€™t someone, somewhere, laughing?”
“I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.”
“Why doesn't Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that's where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it's the key to solving some of the world's biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world's biggest problems.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Even more than in the concert hall, in church there are things you can and cannot do, just out of respect. You would never have the sound of someone being nailed to a cross, or the sound of a child being born, because everybody knows the story. We know that we're meant to feel a complicated raft of things.”
“You are the only person in existence who can use your potential. It is an awesome responsibility.”
“Mother nature has the power to please, to comfort, to calm, and to nature one's soul.”
“I have a wardrobe full of expensive clothes, but wear the same two T-shirts. I've never found a look.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2007.

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