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“It has been my experience that there is no substitute for time where thinking is concerned. Why is it so? The answer seems to be that in many cases to think means to be able to allow the mind to stray from the task at hand. The mind must be able to be "elsewhere." This needs time.”

“The central task of education is to implant a will and a facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.”

“To the intellectual the struggle for freedom is more vital than the actuality of a free society. He would rather "work, fight, talk, for liberty than have it."”

“You love that which you can lose.”

“You can't be loony and rich. You've got to be eccentric if you're rich.”

“There is a crack, a crack, in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.”

“We have no shot at creating a thriving human society without seeing the truth. And we can’t create a thriving human society without making this a society that is conducive to people being truthful.”

“Love is a feeling we can experience but never explain.”

“It's the moments when we take risks that show the courage we have in speaking our minds.”

“If you are not truthful and if you are not in reality about yourself and if you are not in reality about the truth of other people, you have no chance at being happy in any of your relationships.”

“Consider that if a truth is able to destroy or destabilize something, that thing was not strong, real or stable in the first place. That stability you thought you had, was a total illusion. Your world was built on quicksand.”

“Let us prepare every child for the test of life, not just a life of tests.”

“Asking is legitimate, answering is courtesy, but also education and fairness. To send "Affanculo" instead, sometimes it's dutifull.”

“The term "Sticazzi" dedicated to a bad event, wrong people, mistakes made or wrongs received: it is a lifesaver. Natural. Economical and effective.”

“Hide by claiming to have a shitty character, when the truth is not wanting to acknowledge that you have disrespect: it is pure cowardice.”

“It's always the small actions, but done with the heart to describe the value of a person.”

“The individuals who hide behind excuses, because they don't have the courage to report what they think, they are of one embarrassing existence.”

“When something is real or true, it will feel stable and solid, even if you don’t feel “good” about it.”

“Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.”