"An opinion which excites no opposition at all is not worth having!"

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Source : Marie Corelli (2015). “The Master Christian”, p.58, The Floating Press

Marie Corelli

#Opinion Quotes

“An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral.”
“The economy is showing encouraging signs of recovery.”
“We are none of us perfect, and...we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are”
“What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.”
“People can perfect whatever facade they want, but everyone holds their sins close to their skin.”
“I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen our hearts so we can keep them open to what is difficult: delight in taking a shower or a slow walk that has no destination, in touching something soft, in noticing the one small, black bird who sings every morning from the top of the big old pine tree ... I need to give my attention to the simple things that give me pleasure with the same fervor I have been giving it to the complex things with which I drive myself crazy.”
“Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.”
“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”

Source : John Dewey (1980). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.161, SIU Press

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