Northrop Frye Quotes
We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
Northrop Frye
Quotes to Explore
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Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.
Martin Sheen
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One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.
Andrea Hirata
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Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.
Jean Genet
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When I was growing up as a child, a magazine, to me, was like a finger beckoning me to the future.
Joanna Coles
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We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.
George Ripley
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So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.
John Ratzenberger
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Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower out, walk down the neighborhood, cut grass.
Barry Jenkins
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But I think the - what the tea party movement demonstrates, and I think the, the, the enthusiasm that we're seeing from independents and Republicans, is that if Washington isn't going to change itself, then we're going to change Washington. And I think that's what we're seeing.
John Cornyn
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The dummies and slackers, by their mere existence, are imposing a negative externality on the skilled and dedicated.
Avinash Dixit
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We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
Northrop Frye
