"They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything."

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Olive Schreiner

#Education Quotes #School Quotes #Names Quotes

“How can a guy climb trees, say 'Me, Tarzan, you, Jane,' and make a million? The public forgives my acting because they know I was an athlete. They know I wasn't make-believe.”
“The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.”
“People aren't meant to be perfect. We're all imperfect people looking for perfect moments to share with other imperfect people.”
“*Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path.”
“After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one was ever improved by a book (or a play or a movie). You have to believe, in other words, that all art is morally trivial and that, consequently, all education is morally irrelevant. No one, not even a university professor, really believes that.”

Source : New York Times Magazine, March 28, 1971.
“Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books for free, not harder. It is stupid to sacrifice tomorrow's book buyers for today's dollars, especially when it's obvious that the source in question doesn't have any more dollars to give you.”
“Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.”
“...Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing.”

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