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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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I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his limits of fully realizing his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of it, is infinitely the ghastliest, commonest, and most inclusive of all the crimes of which the human world can assure itself. – James Agee

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Potential
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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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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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It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six. – John W. Gardner and Francesca Gardner Reese

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that childs world and thus a world event. – Gaston Bachelard

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A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Our genes make us immortal. – The Secret of Life, PBS

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