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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 ...more
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Thomas Pynchon
“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
Thomas Pynchon

James Baldwin
“Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.”
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

Alan Bennett
“Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.”
Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
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Harlan Ellison
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
Harlan Ellison

Jorge Luis Borges
“There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.”
Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

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