"Like many features of a landscape, knowledge looks different from different angles."

-- David Bloor

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“Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw upon when making decisions or encountering situations. Emotional expression by contrast can mean being driven by emotions, so that it isn't possible to think. These two things are often confused, because we are still uncomfortable with the idea of the validity of feelings.”

Source : "Bite by bite to success" by Susie Steiner, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2002.
“Sometimes I would come back from a run, and my artificial leg would have a puddle of blood from my stump. I wouldn't go to sick bay. In that year, if I had gone to sick bay, they would have written me up. I didn't go to sick bay. I'd go somewhere and hide and soak my leg in a bucket of hot water with salt in it--an old remedy. Then I'd get up the next morning and run.”
“The Bolsheviks did not seize power; they picked it up.”
“A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.”
“Bite me, Harry Potter.”
“The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.”
“Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.”
“Now the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that the Egyptians thought geometry was about surveying instruments: when some field is just getting started and you don't really understand it very well, it's very easy to confuse the essence of what you're doing with the tools that you use.”

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