Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand. - T. S. Eliot

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All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

T. S. Eliot

Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

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April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

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If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

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Mortimer Adler

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

Discovery, Genuine, Learning, Memories, Memory, Teacher

W. S. Merwin

If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.

Decent, Different, Might, Thinking, Way, Work

Holly Black

She put a hit on her boyfriend, so it's not like she hasn't murdered someone. " "And you know that how?" Sam asks. I'm trying really hard to be honest, but telling the whole thing to Sam seems beyond me. Still, the fragments sound ridiculous on their own. "She said so. In the park. " He rolls his eyes. "Because the two of you were so friendly. " "I guess she mistook me for someone else. " I sound so much like Philip that it scares me. I can hear the menace in my tone. "Who?" Sam asks, not flinching. I force my voice back to normal. "Uh, the person who killed him.

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Aubrey Beardsley

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

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Matthew Specktor

I thought, writing is everything, it's so much more important than this or that. If only I could give that young man a stern talking to. Having a child changes things quite a bit.

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