"The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap between the sheer weight of the textbooks that he carries home from school and his capacity to interpret what is in them."

-- Marguerite Yourcenar

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“The knowledge that you can handle anything that comes your way is the key to allowing yourself to take risks. ... security is not having things; it's handling things.”
“Play the game right. If you play the game intelligently and execute the fundamentals, you can win.”
“The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in color and line as simply and as powerfully as possible and so translates his impression into an aesthetic emotion.”
“A beloved student of mine told me she believed the earth was approximately 6,000 years old. She was smart, she was thoughtful, and she was wrong. But I couldn't discount her - I respected her too much. So I debated with her, using every bit of science and logic I had, but I still failed to convince her that the earth was billions of years old.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it's actually you that's time-shifted?”
“Words are the only bread we can really share.”

Source : Luis Alberto Urrea (2002). “Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life”, p.58, University of Arizona Press
“I am drinking the stars”
“Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.”

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