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Amuse Your Mind
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
~ Plato
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Love has never been a popular movement. And no one’s ever wanted, really, to be free. The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people.
~ James Baldwin
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Sometimes they have to kill us… because they can’t break our spirit. We choose to be who we are. We know the difference between the reality of freedom and the illusion of freedom.
There is a way to live with the earth and a way not to live with the earth. We choose the way of the earth.
~ John Trudell
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I used to rebel by destroying myself, but realized that’s awfully convenient to the world. For some of us, our best revolt is self preservation.
~ Mitski
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What naturally interests you, finding what “amuses your mind,” is how you really learn. Children know this before they go to school, but traditional education has a way of causing them to forget it.
