"To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect."

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Source : ROBERT M. HUTCHINS (1952). “THE GREAT CONVERSATION: THE SUBSTANCE OF A LIBERAL EDUCATION”

Robert M. Hutchins

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“I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to make them men, citizens, and Christians. The vices of young people are generally learned from each other. The vices of adults seldom infect them. By separating them from each other, therefore, in their hours of relaxation from study, we secure their morals from a principal source of corruption, while we improve their manners by subjecting them to those restraints which the difference of age and sex naturally produce in private families.”
“I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.”
“How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?”
“So many people I was at school with have all ended up being musicians and putting records out.”

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“Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.”

Source : Jean Little (2001). “Orphan at My Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope”, Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada
“If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.”
“I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.”
“My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.”

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