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Philippe Aries

"Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of any sort whatever--whether that of courtier, soldier, administrator, merchant or workman--a boy did not amass the knowledge necessary to ply that trade before entering it, but threw himself into it; he then acquired the necessary knowledge."

Source : Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage

Philippe Aries

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“I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.”
“New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings people to the city. People come to the city and experience the wonders of this extraordinary city and everything else. The question is that, how do we create jobs which are the jobs that have pay, that - living wages?”
“I don't think I've ever really had a home before, not until I met you.”

Source : "Charisma Carpenter Talks SURVIVING EVIL, Telling Her Own Story of Survival, Connecting to Other Survivors, and Finding the Strength to Move On". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. August 28, 2013.
“I think it's important to do things you enjoy off the field because, if you just focus on baseball, you can go crazy. It's such a tough game with a lot of failure, so for me to do things like this, it's fun. When you're playing, especially in Chicago, you're in front of the camera a lot anyway. I'm slowly getting used to it.”
“I am a butterfly drunk with life. I don't know where to soar, but I won't allow life to clip my beautiful wings.”
“I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.”
“This planet is an exquisitely arranged and interconnected system. What's controlled in one place is going to have consequences in another place. Our job as gardeners is to try and figure this out no matter how small our allotted space might be. Discipline has to be the watchword for our controlling hands. It means not gardening without thinking of the garden as a habitat: for mice, for squirrels, for bees and wasps. For other living creatures beyond ourselves.”
“Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you.”

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