"There is so much in the world to hate, why hate yourself?"

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Lydia Lunch

#Hate Quotes #World Quotes #Hate You Quotes

“Before I take you into the beating heart of the story, letâ€™s get one thing out of the way. I know from experience that when it comes up later, it will distract you so much that you wonâ€™t be able to concentrate on anything else I will tell you. My name is Jubilee Dougal. Take a moment and let it sink in.”
“We have to stop delivering the curriculum to kids. We have to start discovering it with them.”
“If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension.”
“Learning is never aversive - usually we are not aware of it at all. It is failure to learn that is frustrating and boring, and so is having to attend to nonsensical activities.”

Source : Frank Smith (1986). “Insult to Intelligence: The Bureaucratic Invasion of Our Classrooms”, Heinemann Educational Books
“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”
“My sister, Swede, who often sees to the nub, offered this: People fear miracles because they fear being changed--though ignoring them will change you also. Swede said another thing, too, and it rang in me like a bell: No miracle happens without a witness. Someone to declare, Here's what I saw. Here's how it went. Make of it what you will.”

Source : Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.3, Atlantic Monthly Press
“Ultimately the most profound problems with psychotherapy have always been that instead of possessing any contrarian or transcendent values to enable it to produce insights countervailing against our dysfunctional and incoherent and humanly destructive culture, its "therapists" have been virtually all shills or agents for this culture, trying to accommodate their patients to a fundamentally unhealthy and insane way of life.”
“There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.”

Source : "Postscript on the Societies of Control" by Gilles Deleuze in October, Volume 59 (pp. 3-7), www.jstor.org. Winter 1992.

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