Quotes
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Urie Bronfenbrenner

"Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performing the act but does not do so, then it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking. The appropriate countermeasure then involves increasing the subjective value of the desired act relative to any competing response tendencies he might have, rather than having the model senselessly repeat an already redundant sequence of behavior."

Source : Urie bronfenbrenner (1978). “2 Wrlds Childhood”, Pocket Books

Urie Bronfenbrenner

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“The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves, and hinting in these ways of her mournfulness or rejoicing. Always she is remembering old things, and these memories, though we may not grasp them, are imparted to us, so that we share her gaiety or remorse.”
“Man cannot call the brimming instant back; Time's an affair of instants spun to days; If man must make an instant gold, or black, Let him, he may; but Time must go his ways. Life may be duller for an instant's blaze. Life's an affair of instants spun to years, Instants are only cause of all these tears.”
“It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by every branch and lake and river there grew magnolias. Dogs were the same everywhere, and oxen and mules and horses. But trees were different in different places.”
“All that I do and suffer is but the way to the reward, and not the deserving thereof.”

Source : William Tyndale, John Frith (1831). “The works of Tyndale”, p.43
“I believe that we're all created in the image of God and we're all fallen sinners. And I think we can recognize that as we look backward in history.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?”

Source : Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.48, A&C Black
“WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone.”
“We cannot end hunger unless we end poverty.”

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