"A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents."

-- Hyman Rickover

#Education Quotes #Children Quotes #Independent Quotes

“The moment right now, it's a tragically regressive time we live in, you know. We just grounded the Concorde. Where's the future? We've lost the future.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com
“All I need is some cool bud and some tasty hanging change-ups, and I'm fine!”
“With sabre fencing, it's important to have a strong core. I do an exercise called 'the dead bug.' You sit on the round side of a Bosu ball, lean back, extend one arm and the opposite leg, then switch.”
“An immigration violation should not give the government license to rip up the rule book. By restricting judicial oversight and blocking public scrutiny, the government has exercised virtually unchecked power over those it has detained.”
“A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.”
“Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us.”
“The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because every painting captures a certain resistance of paint, a prodding gesture of the brush, a speed and insistence in the face of mindless matter...”

Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.2, Routledge
“Boys do what they can; men do what they want”

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