"It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible."

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Source : Quoted in R S Peters (ed) TheConcept of Education (1966), ch.10, 'Learning and Teaching'.

Michael Joseph Oakeshott

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“I started to really enjoy the fact that [princess] Margaret was an exhibitionist. Even on a day-to-day basis, Margaret's costumes were always so much more dramatic and bold than Elizabeth's were.”
“Do not fear for me, for I was born only once and i shall die only once.”
“There is honor between bitches”
“All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary”
“I think the most surreal moment for me having been a kid who was on unemployment, was on food stamps - I'm not kidding you, to utter these words aloud is so surreal to me - but to say, "I had to give up my Super Bowl tickets for my all-expense paid research trip to Argentina's wine country," it was like, who's life is this? It was splendid, and the nice thing was that they renewed my contract for another year.”

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“I've never been able to develop a movie over several years, and keep coming back to it and adding to it. I get excited by the spark of an idea, and if I can't go make that, there's another idea that comes along that I get excited about. It has to happen quickly, in order for it to happen, at all.”

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“We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.”
“I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye and shoot him with my ole forty-five.”

Source : Song: A Countryboy Can Survive

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