"Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy. Any subject matter which accomplishes this result is humane, and any subject matter which does not accomplish it is not even educational."

-- John Dewey

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“All humanity inspires me. Every passer-by is my unconscious sitter; and as strange as it may seem, I really draw folk as I see them. Surely it is not my fault that they fall into certain lines and angles.”

Source : To-Day Interview, as quoted in Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography (1999) by Matthew Sturgis, p. 200, 1894.
“Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges me to remain silent, my duty compels me to prevent them from doing any more harm.”
“You have to know the past to understand the present.”

Source : Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.62, Ballantine Books
“The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be.”

Source : Sir Ronald Ross (1910). “The Prevention of Malaria”
“I really love having smart and important conversations on TV.”
“God is good and I am always loved.”
“Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.”

Source : "Caprice Bourret...the sexiest fish in the pond". www.askmen.com.
“There is no difference between sitting around the pit watching dogs fight and sitting around a summer barbecue roasting the corpses of tortured animals or enjoying the dairy or eggs from tortured animals.”

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