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W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer
Energy then is morally neutral, it is good or bad depending on the direction it takes. Our task is to provide legitimate outlets for it. The provision of such outlets is important in three ways - for society, for the individual and for the learning of subjects. For any society that wishes to remain civilized this is the highest priority; only by providing satisfactory activities for all citizens can delinquency, vandalism, crime and violence become exceptional rather than normal. This is a priority of which our dominant institutions seem totally unaware. For the individual, finding a satisfactory outlet for energy means a sense of fulfillment and escape from frustration. For the learning of subjects it is the driving force without which little will be learned.
Children | Duty | Energy | Enthusiasm | Life | Life | Society | Society | Child |
Among twenty snowy mountains the only moving thing was the eye of the blackbird.
W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer
The best way to learn geometry is to follow the road which the human race originally followed: Do things, make things, notice things, arrange things, and only then reason about things.
Children | Discussion | Need | Work |
W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer
I would like to emphasize that the activity approach does not mean every lesson must take place in the playground. All that is necessary is that there should be enough activity to make the mathematical work meaningful and purposive.
W. E. H. Lecky, fully William Edward Hartpole Lecky
When it began, Christianity was regarded as a system entirely beyond the range and scope of human reason; it was impious to question; it was impious to examine; it was impious to discriminate. On the other hand, it was visibly instinct with the supernatural. Miracles of every order and degree of magnitude were flashing forth incessantly from all its parts.
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.
Vitruvius, fully Marcus Vitruvius Pollio NULL
When it appears that a work has been carried out sumptuously, the owner will be the person to be praised for the great outlay which he has authorized; when delicately, the master workmen will be approved for his execution; but when proportions and symmetry lend it an imposing effect, then the glory of it will belong to the architect.
Vladimir Nabokov, fully Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do so.
Children | Love | Opportunity | Soul |
Vladimir Nabokov, fully Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
What is this jest in majesty? This ass in passion? How do God and Devil combine to form a live dog?
Absence | Children | Distinguish | Listening | Melody | Nothing |
Vladimir Nabokov, fully Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
This, to use an American term in which discovery, retribution, torture, death, eternity appear in the shape of a singularly repulsive nutshell, was it.
Children | Darkness | Fate | Husband | Joy | Pain | Reason | Tenderness | Thought | Fate | Loss | Thought |
Vladimir Nabokov, fully Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
There's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.
Vladimir Nabokov, fully Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Under no circumstances would he [Humbert Humbert] have interfered with the innocence of a child, if there was the least risk of a row.
It is not sufficient that a few in society penetrate to the depths of living and offer fascinating accounts about the oneness of all beings. What is necessary in these critical times is that all sensitive and caring people make a personal discovery of the fact of oneness and allow compassion to flow in their lives. When compassion and realization of oneness becomes the dynamic of human relationship, then humankind will evolve.
Attention | Care | Children | Freedom | Greed | Harmony | Joy | Life | Life | Love | Mind | Mistrust | Need | Peace | Responsibility | Study | Thought | Will | Thought |
It is easy to see how adolescence becomes so frustrating, and old age so abhorrent, to many people. The life line is disempowered at two major points: at the beginning and at the end. The only acceptable place is in the middle. Power is conferred only on adults. It is denied to youth and seniors.
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. The lamp in the spine does not light on beef and prunes.
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
I have lost friends, some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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