#cho

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#academe #academy #ancient #football #modern

I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance. ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#attendance #building #i #proper #putting

My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System. ↗

— James Cronin

#park #primary #provided #public #public school

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#go #i #keep #let go #prefer

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. ↗

— Jacques Delille

#chooses #fate #friends #our #relatives

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#deceit #deception #fable #fake #false

Not all addictions are rooted in abuse or trauma, but I do believe they can all be traced to painful experience. A hurt is at the centre of all addictive behaviours. It is present in the gambler, the Internet addict, the compulsive shopper and the workaholic. The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as excruciating, and it may even be entirely hidden—but it’s there. As we’ll see, the effects of early stress or adverse experiences directly shape both the psychology and the neurobiology of addiction in the brain. ↗

— Gabor Maté

#behavior #psychology #stress #experience

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. ↗

— Bono

#associates #commodities #corrupt #government #hoard

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored. ↗

— Arna Bontemps

#anyone #colored #critic #dare #how

My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#choice #either #formed #gang #had