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My father was English. He date-raped my mother so she's hated English men ever since. You know my boyfriend's English, and I'm, uh, I'm half-English, which she's never been real happy about. If she finds out I'm dating someone English, she'll ah, think I' turning my back on her and becoming a foreigner.' Cathy, that's the stupidest reason I've ever heard.


Jeaniene Frost


#cat #english #grave #halfway #dating

I will find you another long-forgotten Queen Mab poem in no time. Depend on it. I refuse to let Cody or anyone else know more about English Literature than me. So calm yourself, Elfish, and let an expert take over.


Martin Millar


#literature #pride #queen-mab #romeo-and-juliet #dreams

I’m not brave, just curious.


Tami Egonu A Rhapsody of Dreams


#romance #dreams

He liked the English and their peculiarities. He liked their stoicism under pressure; on the wall in his factory he kept a copy of a war poster emblazoned with the Crown of King George and underneath the words “Keep Calm and Carry On.


Natasha Solomons


#stoicism #dreams

Ohne die Träume würden wir gewiss früher alt.


Novalis


#novalis #traum #träume #dreams

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness.


Arundhati Roy


#colonizer #danger #fear #folly #humanity

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate." (Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2003)


Edward W. Said


#education

It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.


Oscar Wilde


#beauty

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.


Maria Montessori


#establishing #keep #lasting #lasting peace #out

I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.


Julie Bowen


#learned #nature #stylish #work






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