"True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility."

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Source : "Common sense has much to learn from moonshine" by Philip Pullman, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2005.

Philip Pullman

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“I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.”
“The really great thing about my shoe store is that there's not one dead animal in it.”
“Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.”
“We should reflect on the idea that since the beginning of time sentient beings have been mentally unstable because they have been slaves of delusion, they lack the eye of wisdom to see the path leading to nirvana and enlightenment, and they lack the necessary guidance of a spiritual teacher. Moment by moment they are indulging in negative actions, which will eventually bring about their downfall.”
“When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.”

Source : "Chris Messina Doesn’t Play Favorites". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 20, 2012.
“Just open your eyes, shake your head, and look at what is happening in the world. It is amazing! This universe is amazing!”
“If you know me so well, tell me which hand that I use.”
“Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.”

Source : Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.355, Hackett Publishing

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