"I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment."
― George Orwell
Topic(s): Education
― George Orwell
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- "The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor."
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- "Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."
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