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"Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine."
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"Teaching the myth of creation to the students instead of teaching them the fact of evolution is nothing but an act of ultimate ignorance!"
"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."
"This was my first time in Govan. You could smell and taste the thick smog in the air. The Blue Triangle was a new high-tech building, and it didn't look right standing there in front of older and more historical buildings. The Blue Triangle may have looked great from the outside, but once inside, to my horror, it was full of young teenage boys and girls full of deep and dark depression."
"If you think of your own mother to be the only true mother in the world and thereby start belittling people from other mothers as bastards, that makes you a bigot and a germ on the face of earth. This is an unhealthy bias, even though in your personal mental universe it may provide you extreme comfort. This is exactly what we see in the religious fundamentalists."
"Genius tries to conquer the world with art, with songs, with words; stupid tries to conquer it with sword, with guns, with arrows!"
"To create an enlightened society, be a beacon of light"
"In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer's yard."
"As a legacy, most world leaders leave huge amounts of money to their children and only few leave an honourable surname!"
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"Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice."
"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind."
"Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions."
"If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real."
"Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole."
"A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth."
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