“Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.”
~Alexander Pope, 1688-1744
Daily Wrinkle
27 March 2008 at 3:54 pm (Daily Wrinkle, education)
Tags: Alexander Pope, education, inclination, Pope
Daily Wrinkle
26 March 2008 at 2:39 pm (Daily Wrinkle, Writing)
Tags: America, civilization, Columbus, Daily Wrinkle, imagination, L. Frank Baum
“Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.”
~L. Frank Baum, 1856-1919
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20 March 2008 at 11:24 pm (Daily Wrinkle, Writing)
Tags: book banning, censorship, Daily Wrinkle, infanticide, Rebecca West
“God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.”
~Rebecca West, 1892-1983
Daily Wrinkle
18 March 2008 at 3:30 pm (Daily Wrinkle, Life, Politics)
Tags: Daily Wrinkle, fail, Holocaust, Oskar Schindler, thinking, WWII
“Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.”
~Oskar Schindler, 1908-1974
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14 March 2008 at 12:01 pm (Daily Wrinkle)
Tags: american, Daily Wrinkle, literary culture, Literature, Marilyn Hacker, poets, teaching, universities
“I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I’ve ended up doing that myself.”
~Marilyn Hacker, 1942-
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10 March 2008 at 2:00 pm (Daily Wrinkle, Writing, philosophy)
Tags: Daily Wrinkle, dreams, idleness, truth, Virginia Woolf
“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
~Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941
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7 March 2008 at 11:05 am (Daily Wrinkle, Politics, philosophy)
Tags: corrupt, laws, Ralph Waldo Emerson, state
“Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
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6 March 2008 at 6:33 pm (Daily Wrinkle, Life)
Tags: Daily Wrinkle, education, experience difference, Pete Seeger
“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.”
~Pete Seeger, 1919-
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4 March 2008 at 1:50 pm (Daily Wrinkle)
Tags: absurdities, believe, Daily Wrinkle, injustices, power, Voltair
“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.”
~Voltaire, 1694-1778
Daily Wrinkle
27 February 2008 at 11:32 am (Daily Wrinkle)
Tags: anguish, cost, Daily Wrinkle, Patrick Henry, provide, truth, worst
“For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.”
~Patrick Henry, 1736-1799
