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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency. More about this quote
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That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws...
I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the...
Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you...
No matter how true I believe I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have...
Men deceive themselves; they look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But...
My grandmothers are full of memoriesSmelling of soap and onions and wet clayWith veins rolling roughly over...
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of...
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find...
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. More about this quote
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry;The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to...
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. More about this quote
Life, the permission to know death.Source: Nightwood/ 1937-- Djuna Barnes,...
We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes. More about this quote
A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and...
It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race...
I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than...
Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it. More about this quote
Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence. More about this quote
Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'ern.Source: Precious Bane, 1924.-- Mary...
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