#ra

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. ↗

— Ellen Key

#besides #corporal #effect #gives #hardening

There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers. ↗

— John T. Walton

#catalyst #choice #education #education reform #empower

Inside the front flap of the book were handwritten names of the dozen or so people who had checked the book out before Naomi. Instead of writing her name, Naomi had a thin paper receipt with the due date printed on it. She could never possess this book the way those other people had. It was one of those uselessly nostalgic and sentimental thoughts that serve only our own romantic ideals, but I couldn't help believing it was true nonetheless. I took a pencil out from behind the register and handed it to her. ↗

— Dinaw Mengestu

#libraries #beauty

God is love;’ Creation is the outflow of love. Redemption is the sacrifice and the triumph of love. Holiness is the fire of love. The beauty of the life of Jesus is love. All we enjoy of the Divine we owe to love. Our holiness is not God’s is not Christ’s, if we do not love. [. . . Again, faith works by love]: “For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love” (Galatians 5:6, KJV). Faith has all its worth from love, from the love of God, whenever it draws and drinks, and the love to God and man which streams out of it. Let us be strong in faith, then shall we abound in love. ↗

— Andrew Murray

#holy-in-christ #love #beauty

Ignore the ignorant. ↗

— Ricky Martin

#ignore

There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state. ↗

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

#democratic #law-abiding #room #simply #state

I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done. ↗

— Jaime King

#athletic #base #because #been #bulletproof

I like characters with problems. I like to understand them... To play alcoholics, fetishists, strange girls, you have to dig deep within yourself. It's 'elsewhere' that interests me. ↗

— Marie Trintignant

#characters #deep #dig #elsewhere #i

There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them. ↗

— Peter King

#finding #how #infiltrate #islam #looking

If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both. ↗

— Rob Walton

#both #comic #fine #football #football game