“Education itself is Marketing--marketing tools and perspectives to people who don't necessarily realize why they need them, how it will serve them, what they might accomplish with them. And, ensuingly, Marketing itself is Education (with no attempt to assess the value of what is being marketed).”
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“Keep moving through valleys to find your sight,
As the dark becomes the light,
Keep moving up mountains to find your strength,
As you climb the hardest length.”
― Arrow's Adventure
As the dark becomes the light,
Keep moving up mountains to find your strength,
As you climb the hardest length.”
― Arrow's Adventure
“As much as evil and mercenary selfishness never fail to rear their ugly heads-- sowing destruction in all directions-- so, too, do love and beauty never fail to emerge from the debris. Amid the chaos, there is always something that grows.”
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“Living with contradiction may be nothing new to humans, but acknowledging it, and accepting it are. Even the dictionary has trouble accepting a paradox, calling it 'two things that seem to be contradictory but may possibly be true.' But that's not a real paradox--a real paradox IS contradictory and IS true. So I don't even call them paradoxes anymore, I call them 'contradictory co-existing realities,' both in direct opposition to each other, both true at the same time.”
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“I may not believe that 'all things happen for a reason.' But I do believe that reason may come from all things that happen.”
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