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You’ll find that education’s about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver
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“The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively-- because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins. You have to put a 'box' around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall?”
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“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.”
― Education and the Significance of Life
― Education and the Significance of Life
“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
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Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
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“Science adjusts its views based on what's observed
Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.”
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.”
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