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"That's not how most of Hollywood does it-which helps to explain why Pixar does so well. How are you changing the game in your field? What is your distinctive take on how your industry operates? Do you work as distinctively as you compete?"
"Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education."
"People tell me it's a sin, to know and feel too much within."
"As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance."
"They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks."
"The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example."
"Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it's more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards."
"You can be someone running...who is just a soaring leader of people. But if you don't have the finances down, you're going to have a problem."
"In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated."
"Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it."
"Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation."
"I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now."
"Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks."
"The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country."
"Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward."
"Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind."
"I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all."
"How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years."
"In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet."
"It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced."
