#cat

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

#able #distinguish #population #produced #read

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications. ↗

— John Gilmore

#build #communications #give #guarantee #how

The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement. ↗

— Charles J. Givens

#achievement #create #goal #identify #implement

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans. ↗

— Paul Goodman

#been #fine #genius #leisure #people

I catch myself judging myself as that 13-year-old boy, who, of course, rightfully points out that he is only a child. And my membership - well, I was drafted into the Waffen-SS and didn't exactly volunteer, which was just as idiotic. I wanted to be on the submarines and then ended up with the Waffen-SS. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#catch #child #course #drafted #ended

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom. ↗

— Jimmy Greaves

#becoming #chemical #complicated #football #formula

My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first. ↗

— Arsenio Hall

#came #dedicated #father #first #focused

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

#being #caught #educated #into #thought

My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics. ↗

— Jared Harris

#catholic #catholics #children #deal #father

Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security. ↗

— Mark Hatfield

#national #national security #our #people #security