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“For him who has conquered the min, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his mind will remain the greatest enemy.
SB 6.6”
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SB 6.6”
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“One way of looking at the history of the human group is that it has been a continuing struggle against the veneration of “crap.”
― Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World
― Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World
“We cannot afford to ignore Norbert Wiener's observation of a paradox that results from our increasing technological capability in electronic communication: as the number of messages increases, the amount of information carried decreases. We have more media to communicate fewer significant ideas.”
― Teaching as a Subversive Activity
― Teaching as a Subversive Activity
“It is a curious feature of our existence that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.”
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Hare Krsna Reading Club
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— last activity Mar 27, 2015 11:35PM
Hare Krsna!! This club is made to promote the reading habit among vaishanvas. We'll be reading the books related only to Krishna Consciousness given b ...more
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