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Charles Bukowski 555
American writer 1920–1994Related quotes
Deming: The Way We Knew Him http://books.google.com/books?id=VKBz5RW5yFcC&pg=PA125&dq=%22learning+is+not+compulsory%22+%22+survival%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fcqtUtH0BYbioATs44HQAw&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBjgy#v=onepage&q=%22learning%20is%20not%20compulsory%22%20%22%20survival%22&f=false (1995)
This quote is often cited as “Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.”
“If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.”
Televised address (1976-11-24)
“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”
"New methods and new aims in teaching", in New Scientist, 22(392) (21 May 1964), pp.483-4.
“The kind of person that thanks another person never survives. Have you learned nothing?”
Source: Dreamfever
“Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.”
Variant: Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.
Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (p. 253).
A Note to the Reader
Source: The Historian (2005)
Context: As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claw.
“Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.”
As quoted in Seeds of Peace : A Catalogue of Quotations (1986) by Jeanne Larson and Madge Micheels, p. 203