#iri

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. ↗

— William Glasser

#application #educational #facts #focus #knowledge

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#annals #behind #commonwealth #different #empire

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization. ↗

— Friedrich Engels

#day #driving #first #greed #sheer

Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever. ↗

— Michael Poeltl

#enlightenment #forever #life-lessons #memories #spirituality

Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts ↗

— J.D. Greear

#gospel #gospel-truth #holy-spirit #life-change #beauty

We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#any #arsenals #bombs #cannot #country

When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#delirious #doctors #insane #lacks #man

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. ↗

— M. F. K. Fisher

#aches #ageless #aspirin #cheese #companions

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed. ↗

— John Fiske

#constructed #conventions #discursive #empirical #fidelity

The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct. ↗

— John Fiske

#correct #infallibly #opinions #origin #own