"The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world."

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Source : Alexander Sutherland Neill (1969). “Summerhill: a radical appoach to education”

Alexander Sutherland Neill

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“We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.”
“But strangely, [in] the original Matt Helm books, he's just this super hardass assassin. They sort of made it into a sexy romp for the movies. The books are very, very dark. I also watched 'OSS 117: Cairo, Nest Of Spies,' which is a French film. They just made a second one, I think, which is based on like, 100 novels. They're just fantastic. They're set in the '60s. A lot of the visual inspiration definitely came from 1960 James Bond movies and 'OSS 177' and also 'Pink Panther' movies.”

Source : Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.
“Dhikr is the reason for the life of the heart and leaving it is the reason for its death.”
“They (children) are my teachers. I watch them and I learn. It is important for us to try and be like them and imitate them. They are golden.”
“To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.”
“The Norse way of speaking, no one really knew what the Vikings sounded liked, they were Norsemen. The accent is really a combination of a Scandinavian accent, maybe with a Swedish accent and an old way of speaking.”

Source : "Interview: Katheryn Winnick discusses her ‘Vikings’ shield maiden". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. March 2, 2013.
“I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.”
“There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly.”

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