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Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#bring #good #good teachers #how #know

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#exactly #hammer #handled #how #idea

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#change #change the world #designed #great #laughed

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#chance #democracy #destiny #explain #gives

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#exaggeration #fear #go #humility #limits

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#bad #either #good #itself #makes

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#baseness #brotherly #common #feelings #grounded

Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#other #shroud #side #uniform

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#deaf #going #louder #music #people

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#built #certainties #comprehend #dead #novel