"Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned."

-- Alfred North Whitehead

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“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
“When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot.”
“When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.”
“We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.”
“I can hear President Snow's voice in my head. 'On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the capital, the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors.”
“Words have longer lives than people.”
“Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of a universe of possibles equally possible for any possible subject.”

Source : Pierre Bourdieu (1990). “The Logic of Practice”, p.64, Stanford University Press
“Dreams are one of your greatest natural therapies, and one of your most effective assets as connectors between the interior and exterior universes.”

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