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Quote by Doris Lessing
There was a time when young people respected learning and literatu

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they dont. – Doris Lessing

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If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. – Doris Lessing

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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that nothing succeeds like success. – Doris Lessing

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But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out! – Anna Neagle

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The British system had requirements, including Latin. Im not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning. – William Scott

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What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning. – Chuck Grassley

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Id go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light Id take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. Thats how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques. – Herb Ritts

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