"Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value to the economic interests of competitive societies but for its present value as a perishable piece of life itself."

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Source : Jonathan Kozol (2005). “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America”, p.95, Broadway Books

Jonathan Kozol

#Childhood Quotes #Training Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“Go beyond everything. Don't collect anything. A king does not need to go shopping in his own kingdom. Nor does he beg. Remember, you are the inner reality-pure awareness only. All that arises are appearances in consciousness. Don't bother with all that. Rest only as the awareness. This is the secret.”
“There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.”

Source : Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.81, CLC Publications
“In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a role for them. You write it fairly quickly, and it becomes a group activity before you're really ready to have company.”
“If babies had guns, they wouldn't be aborted.”

Source : Rep. Steve Stockman @StockmanSenate, twitter.com. April 11, 2013.
“Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.”
“For me, L.A. was, and is, a very creative place to be.”
“If you're trying to forge bonds on something other than kinship, and forge a tribal identity on something other than relatedness, conformity is a good way to do it. And if you're wealthy, you can do it with a very expensive It bag, or whether it's Vuitton or Valentino at the moment, and it's a way to signal to one another, We're part of this tribe.”
“Hateful people put fear in other people.”

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