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Kay Redfield Jamison
"Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity." --
Source : Kay Redfield Jamison (2004). “Exuberance: The Passion for Life”, p.69, Vintage
Kay Redfield Jamison
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“The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank.”
“Get your texts from God - your thoughts, your words, from God... It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God. A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear, and your heart full of God's Spirit, is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin.”
“Eliminating one weakness is better than adding one strength.”
“America is a country of comparatively recent immigrants, so I'm part of a line there and the old Americans were thrown off their land by the new Americans, and now the new Americans are being thrown off their land by the corporations.”
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“When it comes to deep and difficult ethical matters - such as the relation of an individual to God, or, I think, an individual caught up in the sublimity of a revolution then things are very different and the Kantian ethic is shown to be limited in its value.”
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“The victims of injustice in our world do not need our spasms of passion; they need our long obedience in the same direction - our legs and lungs of endurance; And we need sturdy stores of joy.”
“It feels great to be on top of the world but the greatest feeling is when your feet are on the ground.”
“In the daytime, you act the way you should act because that is what people pay you for, or want from you.”