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“I see the possibility of being 'made new' again and the gift of rebirth is all that lets anyone really live.. ..The great secret.. .. is never to get stuck, imprisoned in common social patterns. They always paralyse the real quality of life - the 'going onward' is all that matters, and the dead moments in one's life through trying to be a unit in any society or social concept are terrifying really.”
Source : Letter to Adelaide Kuntz; as quoted in "Marsden Hartley", by Gail R. Scott, 1988, p. 168, September 7, 1933.
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“Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.”
Source : Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions”, p.41, Рипол Классик
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“With a developed imagination there's no place you can't go.”
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“Ray Garton never fails to go for the throat!”
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“I believe that a core problem with undergraduate education, especially at research universities like Harvard, Stanford, NYU, etc, is that most teaching is done by PhDs, who by temperament, training, interests, and rewards are researchers first. So they spend most of their time and energy probing a snip of a field's cutting edge. In my view, the attributes needed to be a transformative undergraduate instructor are pretty orthogonal to that. It would seem that undergraduate education would be superior if there was a separate track for teaching faculty.”
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“To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.”
Source : Willa Cather (2008). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.278, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!”
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“The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.”
