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The social work of the school is often limited to training for citizenship, and citizenship is then interpreted in a narrow sense as meaning capacity to vote intelligently, disposition to obey laws, etc. But it is futile to contract and
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“Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“If she couldn't love her fourteen-year-old schoolboy, she could at least love cubism. p. 91”
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“I ask the reader- is there any reason to believe that these idiots will fail to blow up the world?
The answer is: Only by accident will the present power elite, in this country and others, fail to blow up the world.”
― Young Adults
The answer is: Only by accident will the present power elite, in this country and others, fail to blow up the world.”
― Young Adults
“Behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil, and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting syllables in unison. p. 100”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Monster, I do smell all horse piss, at which
my nose is in great indignation. (IV, 1, lines 223-224)”
― The Tempest
my nose is in great indignation. (IV, 1, lines 223-224)”
― The Tempest
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