“The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work' with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.” MenShouldReasonEnoughDreamSeemsGrowsResultsGrowing UpMysterySubjectsRevolutionMen And WomenMiracleBreadReason WhyDictatorshipDictatorCircusServitude Author:Aldous Huxley
“One of the tragedies of our day is that too many boys are growing up without guidance of a father, or another man, to show them what it looks like to do away with that boyhood stuff. As a result, they often move into adolescence and then adulthood looking like men but still speaking, reasoning, and behaving like boys.” MenLooksStillsShowsMovingFatherStuffResultsBoysGrowing UpGrowingTragedyGuidanceReasoningAdulthoodAdolescenceAnother ManBoyhoodLike A Boy Author:Dennis Rainey
“All communication is more or less cross-cultural. We learn to use language as we grow up, and growing up in different parts of the country, having different ethnic, religious, or class backgrounds, even just being male or female - all result in different ways of talking.” WayDifferentCountryUseLanguageGrowsReligiousResultsTalkingClassGrowing UpGrowingCommunicationFemaleCrossesMalesBackgroundsDifferent WaysJust BeingWay Of Talking Book:That's not what I meant!: how conversational style makes or breaks your relations with others Source: That's not what I meant!: how conversational style makes or breaks your relations with others
“Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike.” PersonsDifferentFormLanguageResultsGrowing UpGrowingShapesDetailsBranchesElephantsIdenticalTwigs Book:Word and Object Source: Word and Object
“My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.” TryingEndsUseDarkResultsGrowing UpGrowingEdgesComicSanityEnd ResultsDysfunctional FamilyHonolulu Author:Kirby Wright