"We will burn the old grass and the new will grow."

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Source : c.1975 Quoted in John Pilger DistantVoices (1992), section 5.

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“I am the complete and utter definition of a Luddite.”

Source : "The sound of silence". Interview with Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2008.
“In opening and conquering a country great and wild and rich - a country indeed not yet fully known or conquered - we have still to learn more about ourselves and each other.”

Source : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey, 1959.
“My mind works so fast. When I think of something I say it. Lots of times I say it even before I think of it.”
“They say if one understands himself, he understands all people. But I say to you, when one loves people, he learns something about himself.”
“And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.”
“Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.”

Source : "Talking About Teaching with Eva Amurri Martino". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2012.
“Beauty brings copies of itself into being.”

Source : Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.3, Princeton University Press
“I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a shrewd politician, and very good in public relations, although she had the usual media help in this. As a Republican and a conservative, I can say ruefully that the Democrats and the liberals tend to get it; that when she said something, it was put in a nice way and highlighted properly by the appropriate media, so that it sounded good.”

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