Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

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To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying...

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying...

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of...

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of...

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out...

A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out...

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic...

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic...

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle...

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle...

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It...

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It...

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.