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“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
― Bob Dylan

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“Police, I learned over the years, are like soldiers, normally good-natured people, but part of a culture of obedience to orders and capable of brutal acts against anyone designated as “the enemy”—in this case, the antiwar movement.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

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“You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

tags: traveling

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“You can’t be neutral on a moving train,” I would tell them. Some were baffled by the metaphor, especially if they took it literally and tried to dissect its meaning. Others immediately saw what I meant: that events are already moving in certain deadly directions, and to be neutral means to accept that.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

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“I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

tags: action, education, educational-enrichment, educational-inequity, knowledge-acquisition, learning

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