"If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through."

-- S. I. Hayakawa

#Philosophical Quotes #Giving Quotes #Society Quotes

“Iâ€™m living in separate universes, and I have no idea where I actually belong.”
“The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...”

Source : Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales”, Knopf
“I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.”
“Education is dangerous - Every educated person is a future enemy.”
“The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.”
“I honor businesses for what they do, I honor nonprofits for what they do, I honor government for what it does, and then I invite everyone to the table so that together we can come up with innovative and broad-based solutions that can serve as many people as possible. The fewer or less diverse voices you invite to the table, the smaller and narrower your solution will be and the fewer people it will serve.”
“Love is the feeling we get when we recognize the positive attributes in another.”
“I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.”

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