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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? – Maria Montessori	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Henry glanced hastily at the mirror. Yes, he did look rather old. He must have overdone some of the lines on his forehead. He looked something between a youngish centenarian and a nonagenarian who had seen a good deal of trouble. – P. G. Wodehouse	added by anonymous 10 years ago
They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball. – Ogden Nash	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors--they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident. – Zambendorf, _Code of the Lifemaker_ by James P. Hogan	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little ...frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads. – Peggy Noonan, speechwriter for the Reagan administration	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. – William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing at the keyboard with one finger. As a learning environment, it may be mentally rich, but it is perceptually extremely impoverished. No smells or tastes, no wind or bird song (unless the computer is programmed to produce electronic tweets), no connection with soil, water, sunlight, warmth, the actual learning environment is almost autistic in quality, impoverished sensually, emotionally, and socially. – John Davy	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks. – John Donne	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The fight is won or lost far away from witnessesbehind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. – Muhammad Ali	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nigel You know, just simple lines intertwining, you know, very much like - I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it's sort of in between those, really. It's like a Mach piece, really. It's sort of - Marty What do you call this Nigel Well, this piece is called Lick My Love Pump. – This Is Spinal Tap	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. – Richard Buckminster Fuller	added by anonymous 14 years ago
From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me. – Walt Whitman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The source of the famous Golden Rule. Many famous lines were variations on this theme. – New Testament	added by anonymous 14 years ago
My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way. – Al Capone	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - they terrify me. Scientists are no problem against them I feel quite confident. – James P. Hogan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant. – Glenda Jackson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him. – Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. – Benjamin Lee Whorf	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept. – Lucille Clifton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. – John F. Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this. – Real Live Preacher	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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