"A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system."

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Source : FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from Jul 28, 2012

Jane Smiley

#Children Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Germs Quotes

“I like being married, but it was never something I felt I had to do.”
“A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.”
“I feel very lucky to be successful in what i love doing everyday.”
“Real achievement -- the true measure of how far we have advanced in life -- is not determined by what we have acquired, but rather by the degree to which we have put our fears behind us.”
“An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.”

Source : Georg Baselitz (2010). “Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and Interviews”
“Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, dramatically cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a poll tax. In the circles I ran in, Reagan was mocked as a childish dolt. Thatcher was despised.”
“As long as I am thinking, I am alive.”
“Your working assumption, when you meet a homophobe, should be that they are gay.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 10, 2012

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