"Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education."

-- Aldous Huxley

#Meaningful Quotes #Country Quotes #Children Quotes

“I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.”
“There is no such thing as a really rich victim.”
“It's an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun of the fact that we may be on to hints as to what the Universe is made out of. I guess the whole point of a prize like this is to be able to get that out into the community”
“The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.”
“This is the national equivalent of having no savings, your credit card maxed out, you didn't renew your insurance, and now your house has burned down. The only way we can start to solve this is rolling back the tax cuts for the rich, which would save about $70 billion.”
“Learning is about failure and recovery from failure.”
“Let me get this straight. I can't take the vampire with me because if I remove the stake, he can kill us all. Now I can't take the girl because she's what? some kind of ninja witch?”

Source : Tate Hallaway (2006). “Tall, Dark & Dead”, p.174, Penguin
“Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.”

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