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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Category: Education

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. In passing we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
  • 2. Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age.
  • 3. My grandparents got married at a very young age and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I love the fact we're still on the road. I was born to be a factory worker really so for me the chance to get on stage at Wembley 30 years after we started is amazing.
  • 2. That's an amazing moment the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.
  • 3. I was about 14 and my friend's stepdad asked me to do a 10K with him because his son – who was more into basketball – didn't want to. It was amazing and I still remember the time I got: 48:23.

3 Anger

  • 1. I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.
  • 2. He who is incapable of feeling strong passions of being shaken by anger of living in every sense of the word will never be a good actor.
  • 3. Fairest and dearest your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.
  • 2. Marriage is the most natural state of man and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
  • 3. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward and you will have the truth about him.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture of all the arts is the one which acts the most slowly but the most surely on the soul.
  • 2. The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
  • 3. Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
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