#ria

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#behavior #being #certain #changes #characters

When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame. ↗

— Wayne Kramer

#bands #beatles #before #could #end

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose. ↗

— Frank Knox

#belief #fire #living #patriotism #purpose

However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#accepted #after #attempts #barbarians #canadian

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#austrian #born #class #disastrous #end

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#brother #committed #father #fighting #had

You know how before you buy a house you hire someone to come check it out and write a homebuyer's report? Someone should do that for husbands. Before you get married, you should have a complete inspection to find out what's broken, if it's fixable, and how much it will cost to repair. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#inspection #marriage #marriage

To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama. ↗

— Junichiro Koizumi

#appeal #backdrop #beautiful #come #complete

First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he was asleep, cut his throat. The synopsis of the ideal marriage. ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#husband #j-g-ballard #james-graham-ballard #jg-ballard #marriage

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place. ↗

— Jeff Koons

#act #art #believe #better #better place