"The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher."

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Source : Kenzaburo Oe (1998). “A Quiet Life”, p.98, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Kenzaburo Oe

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“If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.”

Source : Sadhu Sundar Singh (2013). “At The Master's Feet”, p.45, Simon and Schuster
“It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him; not to presume that he will not attack, but rather to make one's self invincible.”
“I buy when other people are selling.”
“Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.”
“There Has Ceased to Be a Difference Between My Awake Clothes and My Asleep Clothes”

Source : Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.8, Crown/Archetype
“Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or academic books or nonfiction books is that you don't get to hear the person's voice; you don't get them as individuals. You get a few quotes and you hear them as sort of a case study: numbers, examples, anecdotes, maybe a paragraph here, and that's about it.”
“I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.”
“For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.”

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