"The school-boy doesnt force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning."

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Source : Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

Hermann Ebbinghaus

#Morning Quotes #School Quotes #Boys Quotes

“If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.”
“What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs.”
“I think the fact that our economy has changed dramatically over the last 20 years. It's a new economy that has really left some people behind but it has also leveled the playing field in way that has really provided access to women and people of every color, race, and creed to participate and thrive. So while that's not explicitly a women's issue, what it highlights is that women have more opportunities than they've ever had in this country.”
“The American business man cannot consider his work done when he views the income balance in black at the end of an accounting period. It is necessary for him to trace the social incidence of the figures that appear in his statement and prove to the general public that his management has not only been profitable in the accounting sense but salutary in terms of popular benefits.”
“Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.”

Source : "Britain's intellectuals: leading thinkers have their say". www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.
“When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.”
“Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.”
“You've got to be taught to hate and fear.”

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