"If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it."

-- Manuel Puig

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“I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion- keep you from eating, which I liked to do.”

Source : Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”
“Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children. Many 'well-adjusted' adults are bitter, uncreative, frightened, unimaginative, and rather hostile people. Instead of assuming they were born that way, or that that's what being an adult entails, we might consider them as people damaged by their education and upbringing.”
“A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.”
“Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and Iâ€™m not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.”
“Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him.”
“You don't comb the mirror, you comb your own hair and the mirror changes.”
“God saves us because He loves us. It has nothing to do with our goodness or nobility, our achievements or agility. Our salvation depends completely upon our Savior.”
“I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.”

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