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81793cf
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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writing
quip
invention
wings
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Kurt Vonnegut |
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ed5d121
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Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself -- educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.
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feminism
education
knowledge-power
quip
school
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Doris Lessing |
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59f581b
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"Look on the bright side," said Simon, "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway."
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optimism
humor
quip
simon-lewis
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Cassandra Clare |
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b72f393
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"Look, I asked you here for a reason. Much as I hate to admit it, vampire, we have something in common." "Totally awesome hair?" Simon suggested."
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quip
simon-lewis
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Cassandra Clare |
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63032c5
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"I'm not sure you're quite sensible of the honor I'm doing you," Jace said. "you'll be the first mundane who has ever been inside the Institute." "Probably the smell keeps the rest of them away."
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retort
quip
jace-wayland
simon-lewis
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Cassandra Clare |
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1c14d13
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It is an heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in't.
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quip
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William Shakespeare |
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cfb215c
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Once is never. Twice is always.
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wisdom
twice
quip
once
pessimism
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James S.A. Corey |
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2eccb55
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"That's easy," Russell said. "Because everybody else in this here place is crooked as a dog's hind leg. ..."
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quip
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Les Standiford |