"Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers."

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Source : Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson (2002). “Dune: House Corrino”, p.518, Spectra

Brian Herbert

#Teaching Quotes #School Quotes #Acceptance Quotes

“My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.”
“An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.”

Source : George Haven Putnam (2008). “Abraham Lincoln (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.238, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go.”

Source : Barry Cornwall, “The Sea”
“I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.”
“... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.”
“When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.”
“I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.”
“As an adult I generally feel this pressure to be thin, not from men, but from other women. As a silent or not-so-silent competition, a constant monitoring of who's thinner, comments about it - either compliments or veiled insults doesn't matter - it always drives me nuts.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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