"The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need."

-- Anne Sullivan Macy

#School Quotes #Stressed Quotes #Needs Quotes

“The civil power must not be subservient to the advantage of any one individual, or of some few persons; inasmuch as it was established for the common good of all.”
“I shall live this day as if it is my last. And if it is not, I shall fall to my knees and give thanks.”
“Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest.”
“There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.”
“Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares into the abyss must know that the abyss also stares into him" and I never really understood that until my friend got killed and you really get your head around the idea of what horror means. It's a truly awful thing, to really, kind of have that understanding of things and when you really peer into that.”
“The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.”
“I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life”
“You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.”

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