"I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers."

-- Howard Zinn

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“I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.”
“Unreflective self-deception leads people into hypocrisy and all sorts of moral failings. When you look at these people who are busy pontificating like I was a moment ago - Saint Clancy - those are the people that get into the most egregious kinds of moral problems.”

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“The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.”
“For some reason, a lot of Hollywood big shots are curious to see how they'd be drawn with bulging eyes and no chin.”
“Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.”
“Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.”
“Friends are the ones who will always have your back and their perspective on you doesn't change no matter what”
“So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.”

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