The responsibility for change. . . lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to … - Alvin Toffler

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To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.

Alvin Toffler

The responsibility for change. . . lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.

Lying, Teaching, Responsibility, Lies, Seemingly

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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Change, Inspirational, Learn, Positive, Read, Write

Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it. . . to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

Destiny, Ease, Future, Humane, Responsibility, Trauma

Society needs people who. . . know how to be compassionate and honest. . . Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone.

Cognitive, Computers, Data, Emotional, Running, Societ

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources Research Organization phrases it simply: 'The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new direction—how to teach himself. Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn. '

Evaluate, Gerjuoy, Men, Moving, Powerful, Students

The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely. . . because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.

Running, People, Imagination, Imbecile, Participation, Society

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Beverley Nichols

Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them out; you will discover that they drink, or steal books, or speak sharply to cats. Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums.

Book, Cat, Experience, Men, Steal, Taught

Vladimir Putin

No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.

Army, Believe, Fundamentalists, Intervention, Powerful, Provoke

Kurt Cobain

I'm not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off the homophobes.

Gay, Homophobes, Homosexuality, Piss, Wish

Stan Lee

To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.

Fun, Long, Matter, Story, Tell, Writing

Willard Van Orman Quine

My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous with science. I see philosophy and science as in the same boat--a boat which, to revert to Neurath's figure as I so often do, we can rebuild only at sea while staying afloat in it. There is no external vantage point, no first philosophy.

Philosophical, Philosophy, Position, Revert, Sea, Staying