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Isabel Paterson Quotes

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

Isabel Paterson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: January 22, 1886 - January 10, 1961

Topics

System Complete Model State

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

History Past Interpretation Us

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.

Achievement Further Possession

We don't want someone who will get 98 percent of the vote. We want someone who will get 51 percent of the vote.

Someone Want Vote Will Get Percent

Things I didn't have in the past I try to give to kids. I know how it feels not to have things. We were poor, but we had enough food to eat. It was a big family, four kids, and it was not like you could just go and buy something. But we had the essentials, the food.

Family Food Past Enough You Know

My own personal conviction is that if I were writing without thinking about how images or how journalism is creating a world for us, I would not be happy about it.

Happy Be Happy Writing World My Own

I've always liked Dennis Chambers, he's real flashy.

Real Always He Liked Flashy

Blackness, any sort of difference, is not a burden. Relegating blackness or other sorts of difference to serious books that explicitly engage with issues creates a context in which it can seem like one.

Serious Burden Difference Engage

We should be talking about celebrating our differences, understanding that those differences make us richer and stronger.

Understanding Talking Stronger Us

Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates layers of wasteful bureaucracy. Too much help of the wrong sort creates a culture of dependency that swamps our ability to provide.

Donella Meadows

Culture Government Help Too Much

I travel. I do a lot of traveling around the world.

Travel World Traveling Around Lot

I remember that as I was writing a poem on 'Snow' when I was eight, I said aloud, 'I wish I could have the ability to write down the feelings I have now when I am little, because when I grow up, I will know how to write, but I will have forgotten what being little feels like.'

Snow I Am Writing Grow Wish Down

When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking.

Time Society Believe Thinking Grow

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