Lev Vygotsky Quotes
The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.
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Governor Rauner talks about what he might get done or what he tried to get done. It's past time for all his talk. It's time for action. It's what I've been doing my whole life.
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My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.
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It's true the Holy Spirit alone can reproduce the character of our Lord Jesus, and we must always abide in Christ. But the Bible also makes us active partners in the process, and we must be diligent to do our part. "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed".
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The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
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The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.