"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."

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Source : English Social History ch. 18 (1942)

G. M. Trevelyan

#Education Quotes #Reading Quotes #Teaching Quotes

“When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you're there to tell a story.”
“Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong ideas, natural identities; it is evil when it is a steamroller. But a man cannot escape being part of a milieu - and a recognizable part - unless he flees naked to a cave, never to return. The sensible thing is to use hard thinking to find the right way to live and then to live that way. What matters is living with dignity, with decency, and without fear.”
“You're right . . . you can't go back. No matter how much you want to, you never can”
“I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.”
“Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.”

Source : "Klaus Kinski & The Thing" by Marcelle Clements. Playboy, Vol. 32, Iss. 11, November 1985.
“I believe in destiny. I believe destiny opens doors for you, but it's up to you to walk through them.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 31, 2012
“Weeks passed, and the little Rabbit grew very old and shabby, but the Boy loved him just as much. He loved him so hard that he loved all his whiskers off, and the pink lining to his ears turned grey, and his brown spots faded. He even began to lose his shape, and he scarcely looked like a rabbit any more, except to the Boy. To him he was always beautiful, and that was all that the little Rabbit cared about. He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.”

Source : Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco, William Nicholson (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit”, p.32, Courier Corporation
“You are my sunshine my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are grey. You'll never know dear how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away.”

Source : "You Are My Sunshine" (song) (1930). Cowritten with Charles Mitchell.

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