"She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her she should be."

-- E. Lockhart

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“Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.”
“The ambiguous, gray areas of authority and responsibility between parents and teachers exacerbate the distrust between them. The distrust is further complicated by the fact that it is rarely articulated, but usually remains smoldering and silent.”

Source : Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (1978). “Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools”, Basic Books (AZ)
“Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.”
“Damien Hirst's Mother and Child Divided (1993) is a work which can at first glance be read as nothing more than two brutally severed carcasses. "A freak show" was how the art critic of the Sunday Telegraph responded to its presentation in the Turner Prize in 1995. For me, the undoubted shock, even disgust provoked by the work is part of its appeal. Art should be transgressive. Life is not all sweet.”

Source : "Who's Afraid of Modern Art?". The Dimbleby Lecture, 2000.
“We meditate so we can see miracles unfolding. Without stillness life is a blur.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.”

Source : "In Their Own Words; Excerpts From The Remarks By Housing Secretary Kemp", www.nytimes.com. August 19, 1992.
“The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.”
“I figured it is always better to be unpopular by your own choice.”

Source : Tom Upton (2016). “Fading Away”, p.81, Tom Upton

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