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Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

—Tom Masson

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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.

—Samuel Johnson

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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.

—John Gaule

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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

—Mae West

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I would agree that learning is a natural act if we are talking about the kind of learning that happens in a healthy relationship between a mother and her baby or between two people getting to know each other. But schooling is not a natural act. Quite the contrary: The institution of School, with its daily lesson plans, fixed curriculum, standardized tests, and other such paraphernalia tends constantly to reduce learning to a series of technical acts and the teacher to the role of a technician. Of course, it never fully succeeds, for teachers resist the role of technician and bring warm, natural human relationships into their classrooms. But what is important for thinking about the potential for megachange is that this situation places the teacher in a state of tension between two poles: School tries to make the teacher into a technician; in most cases a sense of self resists, though in many the teacher will have internalized School's concept of teaching. Each teacher is therefore somewhere along the continuum between technician and what I dare call a true teacher.

—Seymour Papert in The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer

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How many scholars are there whose single book or article has generated more intellectual energy than the collected works of other, quantitatively far more 'productive,' scholars? The commensurating device known as the 'tape measure' may tell us that a Vermeer interior and a cow plop are both twenty inches across; there, however, the similarity ends.

—James C. Scott in Two Cheers for Anarchism

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The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.

—Francesca Lia Block in Pink Smog

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I think if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I've known you for a short time, but I feel like I've known you forever.

—J.A. Redmerski in The Edge of Never

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Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

—Dale Carnegie

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If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

—Joan Rivers

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True love doesn't always last. It doesn't always have to be for a lifetime.

—Taylor Jenkins Reid in One True Loves

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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.

—Terry McMillan in Getting to Happy

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Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

—Isaac Newton

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The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

—Bertrand Russell

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He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

—Dylan Thomas

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