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“Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.”
― The Power of Myth
― The Power of Myth
“Curing the negatives does not produce the positives.”
― Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
― Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
“Everyone who has ever been to school knows that school is prison, but almost nobody beyond school age says it is. It's not polite. We all tiptoe around the truth because admitting it would make us seem cruel and would point a finger at well-intentioned people doing what they believe to be essential. . . . A prison, according to the common, general definition, is any place of involuntary confinement and restriction of liberty. In school, as in adult prisons, the inmates are told exactly what they must do and are punished for failure to comply. Actually, students in school must spend more time doing exactly what they are told than is true of adults in penal institutions. Another difference, of course, is that we put adults in prison because they have committed a crime, while we put children in school because of their age.”
― Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
― Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
“I do not want anyone to get close to me, I do not want anyone to see me, and this is the way things have developed: no one gets close and no one sees me.”
― My Struggle: Book 1
― My Struggle: Book 1
“I feel almost physically ill in the presence of boring people who consider themselves especially interesting and who blow their own trumpets.”
― A Man in Love
― A Man in Love
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— last activity May 03, 2015 08:51PM
Friends getting together to read, feed our minds, enlarge our hearts, and expand our horizons--and to share our ridiculous thoughts about what we read ...more
Dystopian Reading List
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— last activity Nov 23, 2014 04:38PM
Basically, I have for some time now had the craving to explore in a more systematic manner the dystopian genre. In an attempt to capture with due just ...more
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