Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning.
I had a dream about you. You were wearing an ice cream cone for a hat, and I was wearing a dunce cap. You were jealous of me because my hat was a bigger cone than yours, and I was jealous of you because your hat was edible. In the end we decided to t...
So they spread the paintings on the lawn, and the boy explained each of them. "This is the school, and this is the playground, and these are my friends." He stared at the paintings for a long time and then shook his head in discouragement. "In my min...
As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write, might achieve esteem and success equal to her great novel, but that its emotional heart would lie in her own unhapp...
Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battl...
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...that out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art.
It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.
For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person...
He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.
For everyone has a destiny. A destiny not found in the pages of a hefty book; a destiny not found in heaven or in hell. No, our destinies are embedded in our bodies.
...the answer is not in the damn blank page - it's in the days or years before and you have to dredge it up - exhume the past again ...
How do you spell 'contravention'?" said Carrot, turning over a page. "I don't," said Nobby, pushing through the crowds.
Don't be discouraged or complacent; keep reading it, keep sharing it because it's God's page opened in your life!
I love the French edition with its uncut pages. I would not want a reader too lazy to use a knife on me.
ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single, bleary blink.
While information is the oxygen of the modern age, disinformation is the carbon monoxide that can poison generations.
An open internet is an open platform for debating opposing views. It allows unpopular voices to be heard.
I believe e-courses will eventually change people's attitude toward learning. Education will play an increasingly dominant role in people's lives. For people of all ages and all geographies.
For chat-room tyros who expect to make their first million day-trading by age 27, paging through the Sunday newspaper with a pair of scissors just to save a couple of cents on Cheetos seems so, well, old economy.
I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
