"Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core."

-- Maria Montessori

#Children Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Force Quotes

“After I quit dancing, I tried a lot of jobs. But I could always bake.”
“The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.”
“Iâ€™m not a religious person; I would call myself an atheist. I donâ€™t have a good story behind it, Iâ€™m just reasonable.”
“It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?”
“John Kerry tried to work with the Russians on Syria, and the man was honorable, because he was trying to do the right thing, and frankly, playing a very weak hand, a hand that was weak not because of him, okay. He did the best he could, but I will say this to his enormous credit: he never offered a dirty deal. You can have Ukraine if you only help us out on Syria. Never - he never did that.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“On the face of it, these look like bad times for Labour and for Ed Miliband's leadership. There seems to be no strategy, no narrative and little energy. Old faces from the Brown era still dominate the shadow cabinet and they seem stuck in defending Labour's record in all the wrong ways: we didn't spend too much money, we'll cut less fast and less far, but we can't tell you how.”

Source : New Statesman, January 5, 2012.
“We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Childrens Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didnt raise a significant amount of money.”
“The immediate facts are what we must relate to. Darkness and light, beginning and end.”

Source : "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, Tromsø Norway: Original Film AS, 1990.

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