"The next time you see one of those squirrels go near my putting green, take a gun and shoot it"

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Those who know they're valued irrespective of their accomplishments often end up accomplishing quite a lot. It's the experience of being accepted without conditions that helps people develop a healthy confidence in themselves, a belief that it's safe to take risks and try new things.”

Source : Alfie Kohn (2011). “Feel-bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling”, p.109, Beacon Press
“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”
“There is a fatality about unkept good resolutions. They are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”
“Global inequality is such an abstract concept, simply because there is no global government. Telling people in rich countries who have had no increase in real incomes, stagnant median wages and so on, that on the other hand global inequality is going down because people who are much poorer than them are getting richer - it's something that maybe they would like in an abstract sense, because everyone is happy there are fewer poor Chinese, but you may not be as happy if these Chinese are taking your job.”
“Nothing is important save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify one's thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all the while searching to express it.”

Source : Private Journal - A collage of notes and images, sketches kept 1888-1895 & 1907 to 1940, September 6, 1890.
“Let me be very blunt: the heterosexual transmission of AIDS is, in Africa, a function of truly pathological promiscuity. So this is really a violence issue - not the same violence we deal with in Boston, where teenagers stab and shoot each other, but the violence of African men who are killing themselves, and killing African women and children, with pathological promiscuity.”

Source : "Silence is Death". Interview with Eva Thorne, bostonreview.net. April/May 1999.
“Because all things are necessary to man's complete unfoldment, all things in human life are the work of God.”
“Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.”

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