"The better we understand the choices we have been making, either consciously or unconsciously, the more say we will have in the world we create. Neurocircuitry may be neurocircuitry, but we don't have to run on automatic."

-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Running Quotes #Choices Quotes #World Quotes

“Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to save their souls.... Consistent with this goal, the first book written and printed for children in America was titled Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes in either England, drawn from the Breasts of both Testaments for their Souls' Nourishment.”
“From the moment we are born, we begin to die.”
“[Science is] piecemeal revelation.”
“What would the world be without him, and those like him?”
“Remember how last year there were two more girls than guys and I had to be on the guys' side and dance with all the girls? That was a lot of fun. I love being tall.”
“I came from a real working-class show business family.”
“Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.”

Source : "Profile: Commons Speaker, John Bercow" by David Hencke, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2009.
“The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.”

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