"A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world."

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Source : Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Caroline Pratt

#Long Quotes #World Quotes #Lifetime Quotes

“Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.”

Source : "Fate — I believe!". Speech on November 03, 1936. "Wir alle helfen dem Führer". Book by Robert Ley, pp. 103-114, research.calvin.edu. 1937.
“It seemed to me that had Haydn lived to our day he would have retained his own style while accepting something of the new at the same time. That was the kind of symphony I wanted to write: a symphony in the classical style. And when I saw that my idea was beginning to work, I called it the Classical Symphony.”

Source : "Sergei Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences". Book edited by S. Shlifstein and translated by Rose Prokofieva, p. 46; from the "Autobiography", 1960.
“If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude toward more spending as opposed to cutting back on spending.”

Source : Source: www.aims.ca
“I am quite reactionary about Aussies travelling. Why, we've only been here a hundred years. What can be added by going before we are here? - that is not right but for we are here, but only just here. If we don't hold what we have we may never find it again, so delicate a thing it is, yet it gives the appearance of being overpowerful on close examination... I don't think a change of location can answer our questions.”
“I bet most of us have experienced at some point the joys of less: college - in your dorm, traveling - in a hotel room, camping - rig up basically nothing, maybe a boat. Whatever it was for you, I bet that, among other things, this gave you a little more freedom, a little more time.”
“The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over.”
“She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.”
“Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.”

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