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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. No sex age or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
  • 2. Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
  • 3. Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much achieve so much and still fail so many people so badly?

2 Amazing

  • 1. I mean there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.
  • 2. I think Chris Weitz is an amazing director and his sensibility – I wouldn't even know how to articulate it – it's just he's a very sensitive interesting guy.
  • 3. Gary Ross is amazing. He's just – he always has a billion ideas of what he wants but has a very clear perspective also he just makes it work. He really does. He's trying different things and making everything look amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. My anger with the US was not at first that they had used that weapon – although that anger came later.
  • 2. Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
  • 3. Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger the cost of hatred the waste of spirits.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Last week the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11 we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.
  • 2. Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
  • 3. Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening May 15 1876 at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.
  • 2. Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.
  • 3. I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
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