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“In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of genius, in a succeeding generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine.”
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“To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.”
Source : "Hothouse". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1962.
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“I could fully express myself in lacrosse.”
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“I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died.”
Source : Lizzie Borden, Albert Mason, Caleb Blodgett, Justin Dewey, Massachusetts. Superior Court (Bristol County) (1937). “Trial of Lizzie Borden”
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“I look upon cancer in the same way that I look upon heart disease, arthritis, high blood pressure, or even obesity, for that matter, in that by dramatically strengthening the body's immune system through diet, nutritional supplements, and exercise, the body can rid itself of the cancer, just as it does in other degenerative diseases. Consequently, I wouldn't have chemotherapy and radiation because I'm not interested in therapies that cripple the immune system, and, in my opinion, virtually ensure failure for the majority of cancer patients.”
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“If we want growth today to be more innovation-driven, more inclusive and more sustainable, then we need a more active state, not a less active one. Yet we still hear the dogma that we should just fix market failure by focusing on science and infrastructure, and to "level the playing field."”
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“I love Mary very much. I love her family very much. This is just an issue in which we disagree.”
Source : "Gay marriage debate divides Dick Cheney's daughters". "PM" with Brendan Trembath, www.abc.net.au. November 19, 2013.
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“Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.”
Source : Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.119, Knopf