"How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it."

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Source : Louis Sullivan, Robert Twombly (1988). “The Public Papers”, p.88, University of Chicago Press

Louis Sullivan

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“I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND OBSCURE, THE IMPRACTICAL AND LOCAL AND SMALL.”

Source : Interview with Benjamin Cohen, www.believermag.com. September 2009.
“You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.”
“I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me. And the one guy who didn't vote for me, thank you, too.”
“I think I know what is bothering the students. I think that what we are up against is a generation that is by no means sure that it has a future.”
“Don't try to blame the pain on anyone. Blaming others won't erase the pain.”
“The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.”
“Even when I am forced to conform - we all are on many levels - that line is definitive. It says exactly what it means: Be an individual, you know? Be yourself.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed, but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its sesonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers, and not masters. Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time..."”

Source : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.329, Booklassic

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