#proving

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#after #aims #develop #done #hand

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#every #evidence #facts #false #falseness

The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket. ↗

— Venus Williams

#hang #i #improving #racket #up

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#continuing #music #old #own #proving

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#capitalism #civilization #contradiction #dawn #improving

I think each one of us has committed to improving. ↗

— Jimmy Haynes

#each #i #i think #improving #think

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#expectation #groups #mutually #poetry #political

To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the ones who are usually beyond caring. Possibly because they know me from the Hob, or knew my father, or have encountered Prim, who no one could help loving. So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#dissent #district- #love

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! ↗

— Jane Austen

#come #how #like #quick #reasons

I have seen this happen in recent years with regard to pharmaceuticals and vaccines, where, working together, we are improving access to medicines and vaccines for infectious diseases in the poorest countries. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#countries #diseases #happen #i #improving