Lev Vygotsky Quotes
Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.
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There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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I've been training quite hard.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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There’s so much goodness there, and such a value placed on education, which is sort of universal among Jews around the world. I appreciate that obviously, to be a part of that.
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And while we destroy / Our children will grow / Not missing the things they'll never know / A crime against them / Against you and me / A crime against all humanity
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The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical.
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I always take everything serious when it comes to my career and my life, but this decision to go back to the cage is a big decision for me.
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India's had two groovy moments. Once when the Beatles went to India and now when Madonna has embraced yoga.
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Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them.
