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"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."
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"When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted. But, when he is trimmed, smoothed, and varnished, according to the mode: when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil."
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"An evil woman sends her husband away and wails her evil fate."
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"Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast."
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"Some people are so evil when they enter a house, happiness escapes through the window and unhappiness and fear installed in its place."
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"Seeing them assembled in Tartarus, Percy felt as hopeless as the spirits in the River Cocytus. So what if he was a hero? So what if he did something brave? Evil was always here, regenerating, bubbling under the surface. Percy was no more than a minor annoyance to these immortal beings. They just had to outwait him. Someday, Percy's sons or daughters might have to face them all over again."
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"I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation."
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"We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people."
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"There are heroes in evil as well as in good."
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"Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking."
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"We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does."
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"The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon."
Lie
"The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil."
Creativity
"We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses."
Education
"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."
Evil
"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."
Peace
"We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master."
Work
"To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator."
Life
"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."
Help
"We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being."
Education
"If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks."
Life
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