"He who binds His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven."

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Source : Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “The poetical works of N.P. Willis”, p.91

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#Knowledge Quotes #Keys Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“I think when you fall in love, like true love, itâ€™s love for life. All the rest is just experiences and delusions.”
“The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.”
“I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.”

Source : "Tea Party Victory Shakes Up New York Politics". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 22, 2010.
“I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That was what I intended on doing, but I didn't go away to a university because I wanted to stay in L.A. and audition while I took classes, so I elected to go to a community college and just take G.E. courses. It was terrible.”
“It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.”

Source : Winslow Homer (1979). “Winslow Homer: Master of the Wood Engraving”
“They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.”
“A bodybuilder is a sculptor who carries with him his own material.”
“Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some other men to be instruments of the scientific management of a mass population. Schools are intended to produce through the application of formulae, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled.”

Source : "Why Schools Don't Educate". John Taylor Gatto's New York City Teacher of the Year Acceptance Speech, www.naturalchild.org. January 31, 1990.

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