"Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?"

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Source : Herakleitos, Diogenes (2011). “Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport”, p.55, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Diogenes

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“One afternoon a girl walked by in a bikini and my cousin Janet scoffed, â€œLook at the hips on her.â€ I panicked. What about the hips? Were they too big? Too small? What were my hips? I didnâ€™t know hips could be a problem. I thought there was just fat or skinny. This was how I found out that there are an infinite number of things that can be â€œincorrectâ€ on a womanâ€™s body.”
“The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it.”
“I believe that also it should be stressed and made clear that our antagonistic position is not to say "I don't like whites" for the simple fact of not liking white people. It's like, our fight is not against the white person per se, but against the exercises of white supremacy and the form in which whiteness and the politics of whiteness operates.”
“Our thoughts ought by instinct to fly upwards from animals, men and natural objects to their creator. If created things are so utterly lovely, how gloriously beautiful must he be who made them! The wisdom of the worker is revealed in his handiwork.”
“Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane.”
“I don't get afraid in talking about subject matter that may spark controversy, and I'm not afraid to not be liked. I think that sometimes people pay too much attention to being liked, and it's paralyzing.”

Source : "Jada Pinkett Smith candid on family, projects". Interview with John Carucci, newsok.com. May 10, 2013.
“Showed good business judgment, knowing that these continued lawsuits would be the untimely death of the gun industry.”
“Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.”

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