"Also, everyone thinks they know Candide - you hear people described as 'Panglossian'. So if Candide appears on a poster, it feels familiar."

-- Mark Ravenhill

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Candide Quotes

“A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read.”
“New York has no truck with the past. It expels its dead.”

Source : Luc Sante (2016). “Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York”, p.10, Macmillan
“Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.”
“What is possible for me is possible for you.”
“The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.”
“A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.”
“This can be one of cheerfulness or gloom because color which is so inexpensive, is what does the trick. Not color alone but color plus imaginative lighting and cleverly grouping of the furniture. You say you have an old lobby that nothing much can be done with? Oh yes it can!”
“In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.”

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