#lear

This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#deter #exist #function #means #nuclear

Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#eyes #often #open #see #their

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write. ↗

— Maya Rudolph

#especially #fact #i #learned #now

I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life. ↗

— Ian Rush

#around #became #because #been #better

The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn. ↗

— David Russell

#burn #cross #hardest #learn #life

Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources. ↗

— Lillian Russell

#emotions #energies #learn #manage #present

Life is a test.  It was designed to be so.  It is where we taste the bitter and the sweet; where we feel pain and pleasure; where we learn right from wrong; where we pass through both darkness and light.  It is a time to make choices.  And through this process we form our characters - some grand and glorious, some barely decent, and others just plain monstrous.  ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#choices #learning #life #opposition #richelle

In designing tasks, the instructor should take care to ensure that the task design requires active student participation and promotes the acquisition of the task's pedagogical goals. ↗

— Abdi Kazeroni

#pedagogy #student #tasks #teaching #design

Segregation shaped me; education liberated me. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#inspirational #learning #race #education

Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her. ↗

— Iain Pears

#dialectics #education #greatness #hypatia-of-alexandria #knowledge