There's no science that can't be used for good or for evil. Science could be used by whoever has the power to use it and desire to use it. If you make people knowledgeable about these sciences and don't point out this fact, then you're...
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Myles Horton
The school systems, it seems to me have a attitude of discouragement of asking fundamental questions, if a 5 or 6 year old asks why the moon is round or why the grass is green? The usual adult answer, at least in my experience is...
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Carl Sagan
Search deep within your soul, you will find the light.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
If the ability to read carries the average man no higher than the gossip of his neighbours, if he asks nothing more nourishing out of books and the theatre than he gets hanging about the store, the bar and the street-corner, then culture is bound...
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Edith Wharton
More Quotes By Frank McCourt
You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.
I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How's school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on...
Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I'm still learning what it is about the past that I want to write. I don't worry...
Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it’s the one part of you the world can’t interfere with.
