"You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school."

-- Stephen Ambrose

#Hate Quotes #School Quotes #Way Quotes

“You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.”
“If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the most significant thing it does is coordinate behaviour.”
“By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited.”
“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”
“What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?”
“At least we both know how shitty the world is. You wearing a beard as a mask to disguise it. I wearing my tired smile. I don't see how you do it. One hundred thousand university students marching with you. Toward A necessity which is not love but is a name.”

Source : Jack Spicer, Peter Gizzi, Kevin Killian (2008). “My Vocabulary Did this to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer”, p.426, Wesleyan University Press
“But I don't think it's as dangerous, scary, or terrifying as getting to the end of our lives and wondering, what if I would have shown up?”
“There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.”

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