"Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat."

-- Osbert Sitwell

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“Each moment of life is a step toward death.”
“Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere”
“Did all this make sense?”
“If you want to be different nowadays, just act normal.”
“What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet... What we need is not division; what we need is not hatred, but love and compassion toward one another and a feeling of justice toward those who suffer within our community, whatever their color or faith. Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.”
“Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?”
“That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.”
“Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.”

Source : "We Need Schools... Not Factories" by Sugata Mitra, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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