"Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has become their place of confinement during an increasing part of their lives."

-- Ivan Illich

#Country Quotes #School Quotes #People Quotes

“The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.”
“Where's my tax form? Where's the file that's supposed to hold my W-2 form and interest statement? Where's the mileage log I specifically asked be kept last year?? Where's the monthly check summary? And who's been stuffing Visa receipts in the aluminum foil drawer??!! How embarrassing. I'm surrounded by idiots and I'm the only one in the office.”
“We know a lot of things, but what we don't know is a lot more.”

Source : "String theorist Edward Witten gives prize lecture" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2010.
“Anyone can make anyone else look bad if they really want to pull things apart enough.”
“Obviously we want to keep the jobs we've got.”
“If you submit to the ocean, you drown. If you try to control the ocean, then you're deluded. You learn how to live with the ocean. You learn how to float, to swim, to be a part of it, to be with it. That is the nature of the Pagan's relationship with nature.”
“I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.”
“Donâ€™t read Variety. Donâ€™t listen to gossip. Donâ€™t live in L.A., and write.”

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