Gifted teachers master the patience required for the unending business of transmitting civilization down the generations, transforming biological facts — children — into social artifacts called citizens. It is wearying work and it is a wonder teachers can summon the stamina for it.
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."" Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes,...
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Jane Austen
What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know...
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Jeanette Winterson
The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.
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Michel Legrand
Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.
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Unknown
Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia,...
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Gary L. Francione
More Quotes By George F. Will
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists.
Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.
There may be arrogance — and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.
People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.
