Joseph de Maistre Quotes

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

Joseph de Maistre

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• Mediocrity

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• I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.

  

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• The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

  

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• Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.

  

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• Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

  

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• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

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• Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.

  

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• In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Play
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  • Live
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• My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'

  

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  • She
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• You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.

  

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  • Think
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• As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.

  

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• I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults.

  

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• A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it. But I have always wanted to think my own thoughts about a subject without being overly influenced by what others have thought before me.

  

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• 'Telling a story is how we digest what happens to us,' Mr Whittier says, 'It's how we digest our lives. Our experiences.'

  

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  • Up
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• I only hope that people understand that if I've just come from the gym or am fresh off a red-eye flight and look like a sweaty mess, I might not be super keen on photo ops!

  

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  • People
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• I've teamed up with one of the headmasters at Eton College, and we're spearheading a kind of 'slow education movement in Britain'. It's based on this idea of moving away from the fast-food approach to learning and going to something deeper, more woolly, harder to measure.

  

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  • Up
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• It's so gratifying to see people face to face who get to meet the people who are giving them a fair price for their work. They can now provide medical support for their kids, give them better education and in general have a better standard of living. God knows they deserve it.

  

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  • People
  • Work
  • God

• It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

  

  Joseph de Maistre
  • Education
  • Weakness
  • Mediocrity