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“Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”

Science Lying Hope Opportunity Fear Limits Tragedy Strive Injustice Deeper Denial Stunting

Book:The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

Source: The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

“I should like to raise the question whether the inevitable stunting of the sense of smell as a result of man's turning away from the earth, and the organic repression of the smell-pleasure produced by it, does not largely share in his predisposition to nervous diseases.”

Men Should Doe Earth Pleasure Results Share Disease Raises Smell Nervous Inevitable Repression Stunting

Author:Sigmund Freud

“I watch people all day long on Instagram, I take part in it too. It's like if you get the piece first, you have to immediately be like "BAH!" stunting.”

People Ifs Firsts Long Watches Pieces Instagram Stunting

Author:Pusha T

“A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.”

People Courses Asks Scared Ask Me Jackie Stunting

Author:Jackie Chan

“The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.”

Thinking Mind Scared Fearless Call Me Ads Publicity Of My Mind Stuntman Stunting

Author:Jackie Chan

“If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the argument goes against you. But if your belief is based upon faith, you will realize that argument is useless, and will therefore resort to force either in the form of persecution or by stunting or distorting the minds of the young in what is called 'education.'”

Ifs Thinking Mind Reason Form Young Belief Force Realizing Support Argument Intelligence Useless Abandon Persecution Resorts Stunting

Book:Bertrand Russell's Best

Source: Bertrand Russell's Best

“The millions of dollars which we devote every year to high-school education are, for the most part, money spent for the retarding of intelligence, the discouragement of efficiency, the stunting of character.”

Years Character School Millions High School Dollars Efficiency Discouragement School Education Stunting

Author:Bernard Iddings Bell

“So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting what he is learning, of propagating through others the ideas and impressions seething in his own brain, without stunting and atrophying his moral nature and drying up the surest sources of his future intellectual replenishment.”

Source: Address Delivered by J.J. Sylvester, F.R.S. (corresponding Member of the Institute of France), Professor of Mathematics, at Johns Hopkins University on Commemoration Day, February 22, 1877