"Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness."

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Source : Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community”, p.14

Joseph Lancaster

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“The assembled souls of all that men held wise.”
“Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.”

Source : Kathy Acker (1997). “Bodies of Work: Essays”, Serpents Tail
“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.”
“Human beings never think for themselves... For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity... We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.”

Source : "The Lost World". Book by Michael Crichton, 1995.
“Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry.”
“When I am dead, I will not hurt anymore, will it Mama?...When I am dead, build me a little monument of stones in the woods.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.”
“The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.”

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