„Teaching children to debate without teaching children to listen is divorce training.“
— Warren Farrell author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate 1943
Source: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000), p. 36.
„There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness.“
— E.M. Forster, book Howards End
Source: Howards End (1910), Ch. 15
Context: There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster. It would have helped me no end.
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— Robert E. Howard American author 1906 - 1936
From a letter to Farnsworth Wright (c. Summer 1931)
Letters
„Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.“
— Jane Austen, book Mansfield Park
Dinner was soon followed by tea and coffee, a ten miles' drive home allowed no waste of hours; and from the time of their sitting down to table, it was a quick succession of busy nothings till the carriage came to the door, and Mrs. Norris, having fidgeted about, and obtained a few pheasants' eggs and a cream cheese from the housekeeper, and made abundance of civil speeches to Mrs. Rushworth, was ready to lead the way.
Misattributed
Source: Said by Fanny Price in a 1999 adaptation of Mansfield Park. Actual quote:
— Ray Kurzweil Author, scientist, inventor, and futurist 1948
"The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)
„There is nothing that will make an Englishman shit so quick as the sight of General Washington.“
— Ethan Allen American general 1738 - 1789
Retort attributed to Allen, during his captivity among the British, commenting after a picture of Washington was hung in a outhouse, in an anecdote told by Abraham Lincoln, as quoted in Lincoln, Vol. 1 (1996) by David Herbert Donald; the documentation on this is scanty, and it conceivably arose as a comical anecdote as early as Lincoln's time.
Variants:
It is most appropriately hung. There is nothing that will make an Englishman shit so quick as the sight of General Washington.
As quoted in Strange But True, America : Weird Tales from All 50 States (2004) by John Hafnor, p. 114
It is most appropriately hung, nothing ever made the British shit like the sight of George Washington.
Disputed
„I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.“
— Aaron Klug British chemist and biophysicist 1926 - 2018
in his Autobiography http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1982/klug-autobio.html, The Nobel Prizes 1982, Editor Wilhelm Odelberg, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, 1983.
„Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.“
— Thomas Carlyle Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher 1795 - 1881
Pt. I, Bk. VI, ch. 3.
1830s, The French Revolution. A History (1837)
— Kent Hovind American young Earth creationist 1953
Creation seminars (2003-2005), The Age of the Earth
— Benjamin Franklin King, Jr. American humorist and poet 1857 - 1894
"The Pessimist," http://books.google.com/books?id=nfUaAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Nothing+to+breathe+but+air+Quick+as+a+flash%22+%22gone+Nowhere+to+fall+but+off+Nowhere+to+stand+but+on%22&pg=PA225#v=onepage first published as "The Sum of Life" in the Chicago Mail, c. January 1893 http://books.google.com/books?id=RCgTAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Nothing+to+breathe+but+air+Quick+as+a+flash+tis+gone+Nowhere+to+fall+but+off+Nowhere+to+stand+but+on%22&pg=PA48#v=onepage.
„How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.“
— Jane Austen, book Persuasion
Source: Persuasion
„This Shewing was quick and life-like, and horrifying and dreadful, sweet and lovely.“
— Julian of Norwich English theologian and anchoress 1342 - 1416
The First Revelation, Chapter 7
Context: This Shewing was quick and life-like, and horrifying and dreadful, sweet and lovely. And of all the sight it was most comfort to me that our God and Lord that is so reverend and dreadful, is so homely and courteous: and this most fulfilled me with comfort and assuredness of soul.
„One does not debate nature; one experiences nature.“
— Michael Flynn, book Eifelheim
Source: Eifelheim (2006), Chapter XVIII (p. 327)
— Melvil Dewey American librarian and educator 1851 - 1931
"Field and Future of Traveling Libraries". Home Education Department. Bulletin. State University of New York (1901), (40).
„In the welfare state, experience teaches nothing.“
— Theodore Dalrymple English doctor and writer 1949
A Murderess’s Tale http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_1_oh_to_be.html (Winter 2005).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)
„My view is this: We teach nothing.“
— Julius Sumner Miller American physicist 1909 - 1987
Julius Sumner Miller, in What Science Teaching Needs, Junior college journal, volume 38 (1967), by American Association of Junior Colleges, Stanford University.
Context: My view is this: We teach nothing. We do not teach physics nor do we teach students. (I take physics merely as an example.) What is the same thing: No one is taught anything! Here lies the folly of this business. We try to teach somebody nothing. This is a sorry endeavour for no one can be taught a thing.
What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination. To my own teachers who handled me in this way, I owe a great and lasting debt.
„Quick quiz: What does 'unoccupied' or 'liberated' Palestinian land look like? Answer: Like Gaza.“
— Ilana Mercer South African writer
"Make Jerusalem Safe Again" http://www.unz.com/imercer/make-jerusalem-safe-again/ The Unz Review, January 25, 2017
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