"What we tell students in formal schooling: â€œSit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well."

-- Alex Tabarrok

#Years Quotes #Students Quotes #Quiet Quotes

“Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.”
“Fashion is one of the most beautiful forms of art we have. It's a form of art that every person gets to possess and create for themselves.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.”

Source : Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution is True”, p.11, Oxford University Press, USA
“For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all.”
“I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations and I have not provided false information to this or any other committee.”

Source : "IRS official in charge of targeting unit takes the 5th" by Tom Cohen, www.cnn.com. May 23, 2013.
“The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid taking responsibility for their own business failures. I lack words to quantify my contempt for these utter parasites.”
“Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.”
“The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.”

Source : Gail Godwin, Shannon Ravenel (1985). “The Best American short stories, 1985”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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