"How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?"

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Charles Kingsley

#School Quotes #Average Quotes #Long Quotes

“In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.”
“It is precisely because I believe it is not possible to neatly separate the sexual from other sorts of relations that I find the movement to bar the sexual from pedagogy not only dangerous but supremely impractical.”

Source : Jane Gallop (2002). “Anecdotal Theory”, p.65, Duke University Press
“I will never be a waif. I want to market myself as a healthy-looking woman who is an action-star kind of girl.”
“I don't want to make things that are cynical and aggressive just because, oh my God, there's enough of that going on in the world without me adding to it,”
“The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.”
“It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet outside of this role it refuses to permit intellectuals to think or function independently.”
“Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. loneliness is small, solitude is large. loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nodbody answers; solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.”

Source : Kent Nerburn (2010). “Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life”, p.55, New World Library
“Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.”

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