"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is."
-Thomas Szasz
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"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.“
-Thomas Szasz
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"A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power."
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"Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility."
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"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."
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"I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government."
-Lloyd Bentsen
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