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"People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green."
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"This corn will teach to you, should you peel away the husk, and be willing to open your ears."
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"When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue."
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Personal Development

"To teach, learn. To learn, teach."
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"We learn better when learning is a game."
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"Experience is the only subject worthwhile of study."
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Personal Development

"When you learn something new, the structure of your brain changes."
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"The best way to learn is through direct experience."
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"No practice exists in isolation."
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"Those who say 'I am ready to learn', or 'I am not ready to learn' are as often mistaken as they are correct in their surmise."
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"MAGHRIBI: Learning is in activity. Learning through words alone is minor activity."
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"An answer is always a form of death."
Death


"That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects."
Relationship


"Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them."
Love


"Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man."
Life


"I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me."
Society


"There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be."
Life


"Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have woken her a little After a moment he felt her turn as well and lay a hand, instinctively, like a sleeping wife, across his hips; as if, in some dream, he was the one who escaped."
Romance


"It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me."
Despair


"These question-boundaries ...are ours, not of reality. We are led to them, caged by them not only culturally and intellectually, but quite physically, by the restlessness of our eyes and their limited field and acuity of vision."
Philosophy


"I needed a new mystery."
Mystery
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