Quote by James Agee
Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles

Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied. – James Agee

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He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the tracks end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive… – James Agee

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Actors, Acting
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As a whole part of psychological education it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that adjustment to a sick and insane environment is of itself not health but sickness and insanity. – James Agee

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Insanity
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A child is a curly dimpled lunatic. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Boy, n.: a noise with dirt on it. – Not Your Average Dictionary

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Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. – Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood (introduction), 1982

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I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. – Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

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Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves. – Blaise Pascal

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Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects. – Leon Kass

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