"I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport."

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Sherry Turkle

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“One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.”
“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
“You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it.”
“You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.”
“For several years I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today I have understood that the image cannot be preconceived.”
“All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.”

Source : Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.59, Read Books Ltd
“Of course each citizen should try to educate him or herself, but only after receiving some essential, basic blocks of knowledge. Formal education should always be free; from kindergarten to PhD. It is free in many European countries, and in several Latin American ones (including Cuba, Mexico and Argentina). China is returning to free education, as it is returning to universal health care. In countries like Chile, people are on the streets right now fighting for free education, and they are winning!”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.”

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