"How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high grades? Year after year we listen to these fellows tell us that it is not the grade that counts but the development of the child's personality. After the lecture they go back to all the best schools and reject our children because they have C averages."

-- Russell Baker

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“My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.”

Source : "Candidate With A Diff'rence". Interview with Hank Stuever, www.washingtonpost.com. August 24, 200.
“Our crisis is a birth. We are one living system and we have come to the limit of one phase of natural growth on a finite planet We must learn ethical evolution quickly As we seek to facilitate a gentle birth, a graceful and nonviolent transition to the next stage of our evolution, we will discover a natural pattern, a design of our birth transition, and develop a plan to cooperate with this design.”
“What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.”
“There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.”
“I look back to a happy childhood.”

Source : Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.20, Wakefield Press
“You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.”
“Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.”
“To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier.”

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