"the chief thing I learnt at school was how to tell lies."

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Source : Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.72, Clear Press Ltd

Gwen Raverat

#Education Quotes #Lying Quotes #School Quotes

“The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.”
“Nothing is harder to see into thanpeoples nature. The sage looks at subtle phenomena and listens tosmall voices. This harmonizes the outside with the inside and the inside with the outside.”
“I want to be an actress, not a personality.”
“The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'”
“So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.”
“Never duck responsibility, its like running from the rain only to fall into the river.”
“Universe will re-arrange itself accordingly.”
“Epidemic obesity is an enormous problem. It's a pendulum that's swung too far. We have to swing it back. So it should come as no surprise that solution must be built from the ground up on the banks of this flooding river and it must be raised to a height higher than flood waters. Now what does that look like? It looks like policies and programs that cultivate healthy levels of physical activity, healthy dietary patterns in homes, in schools, in supermarkets, in neighborhoods, in clinics, in churches, in workplaces, throughout our society, every place we can reach people.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

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