"I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria."

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Richard Brautigan

#Teacher Quotes #School Quotes #Play Quotes

“This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes.”
“The point is that we are among those who cannot get their mouths around all the little Yeses that add up to tacit acceptance of a world run by crackpot realists and subject to blind drift. And that, you see, is something to which we do belong; we belong to those who are still capable of personally rejecting. Our minds are not yet captive.”
“I HAVE no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good, that babies are born pretty much alike, and that the sole agencies in creating differences between boy and boy, and man and man, are steady application and moral effort. It is in the most unqualified manner that I object to pretensions of natural equality. The experiences of the nursery, the school, the University, and of professional careers, are a chain of proofs to the contrary.”

Source : Sir Francis Galton (1870). “Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws and Consequences”, p.14
“It's time for me to step up and take control. That's what I've always been used to.”
“Change the mind, and you can change the body.”
“I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street.”
“There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.”

Source : FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Nov 25, 2013
“I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.”

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