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«We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.»
Author: Elliot Eisner
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
corrected, designed, formally, inadvertently, penalized, rewarded, seldom, system
«Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!»
«When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression»
Author: Sheila Jeffrys
| About:
Men,
Men and Women,
Relationships,
Sex,
Women
| Keywords:
collaborate, collaborated, collaborating, oppression, orgasm, orgasms, patriarchal, reaches, system
«When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.»
«We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
admit, coin, Coined, coining, complain, flip, juries, jury, jury system, much as, operate, operate on, operating system, possibly, system
«We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Nations
| Keywords:
Americans, American System, count, countries, felt, like it, maybe, medical, nation, Scotland, seconds, second world, system, vaporize, vaporized
«The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
belief system, differently, dissolve, dissolving, expand, insane, minds, perceive, result, seems, slip, slipping, slip away, slip by, slip in, slip on, slip up, system, The Fear, willing, working
«To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle»
«Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Popularity
| Keywords:
bullet, catch, catch on, count, increasing, metric, millimeter, nines, popularity, States, system, thus
«The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Patriotism,
Time
| Keywords:
advocated, advocating, approaching, be born, classes, deepest, fast, happened, have happened, insult, interest, Interesting Times, offer, particular, patriot, patriotism, plunder, plundered, plundering, plunders, privileged, system, The Advocate, The Patriot
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