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"The really useful education is that which follows the direction of the child's own instinctive interests, supplying knowledge for which it is seeking, not dry, detailed information wholly out of relation to its spontaneous desires."
"How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?"
"What happens is that in each clump you've got the gelatinization of starches, which happens very quickly at the surface of the clump and it kind of forms a protective skin around this dry hunk of flour."
"Through the dry phases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action."
"The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to."
"At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land. Life is a portage."
"Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces / there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier"
"It seems to me that actual democracy is where all of us get to participate and it's not just a sort of a blunt little dry hump in a ballot box, but an actual penetrative process."
"Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles."
"The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life."
"The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry."
"No, I have someone who comes to the house and washes it, puts in the dry shampoo, and takes care if it because I have no time."
"I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead."
"Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth."
"Sometimes, being happy or being nice can leave me feeling a bit hung out to dry. Especially if everyone else who I'm around is way more guarded."
"Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad."
"One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues."
"Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest."
"Dry feet, warme head, bring safe to bed."
"Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences."
