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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. Whatever you may look like marry a man your own age – as your beauty fades so will his eyesight.
  • 2. Youth is the best time to be rich and the best time to be poor.
  • 3. Old age is far more than white hair wrinkles the feeling that it is too late and the game finished that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body but the indifference of the soul.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.
  • 2. It's great when people appreciate your work but I don't know how seriously to take it. The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing and that can even be extremely lucrative but I love it either way.
  • 3. The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. When you are offended at any man's fault turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
  • 2. I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested but I went into a diversion programme and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.
  • 3. In the heat of our campaigns we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet on the whole our political process has served us well.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. This year as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.
  • 2. On July 18 we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires Argentina.
  • 3. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

5 Architecture

  • 1. You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth at it's best.
  • 2. The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.
  • 3. After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture not only in advanced technology allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.
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