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"Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject...his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it."
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
"Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book."
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"And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship."
"It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong."
"The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart."
"In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook."
"Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty."
"My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel."
"For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery."
"The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter."
"When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done."
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