"Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both."

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Source : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.197, Ravenio Books

Tryon Edwards

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“When it gets difficult is often right before you succeed.”
“You two are a strange pair. You are a pair, aren't you?" "We're in training.”
“You can't use an old map to explore a new world.”
“I get very frustrated when I hear women saying, "Oh, feminism is passÃ©," because I think feminism means empowerment. Men can be feminists, too! Many men are feminists. We need feminism. It's not against men; it's about the empowerment of women. It's the respect of women - giving women equal rights, the same opportunities.”

Source : "Annie Lennox Raises Her Voice". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2008.
“An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is rather primarily a lived and historically changing set of distinctive social practices. It is in these practices that 'content' is generated, debated, and transformed via certain distinctive ways of thinking, talking, valuing, acting, and, often, writing and reading.”

Source : James Paul Gee (2014). “What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. Second Edition”, p.21, Macmillan
“We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.”
“More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.”
“Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.”

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