"I've since come to understand the reason school lasts thirteen years. It takes that long to sufficiently break a child's will. It is not easy to disconnect children's wills, to disconnect them from their own experiences of the world in preparation for the lives of painful employment they will have to endure."

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Source : Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.102, Chelsea Green Publishing

Derrick Jensen

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“Focusing on skills, communications, and community allows the project to be more effective and more agile than focusing on processes and plans.”

Source : Steve Adolph, Alistair Cockburn, Paul Bramble, Andy Pols (2003). “Patterns for Effective Use Cases”, p.18, Addison-Wesley Professional
“As a hero, you have to play it straight. The audience is going to live through you, so you have to be more neutral. They will be projecting their thoughts and their actions onto the main character.”
“Collaboration is the best way to work. It's the only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.”
“One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker.”
“The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age.”
“Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.”
“If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.”
“All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.”

Source : "A Tribute to Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 25, 2004.

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