“If you have never taken the train across Canada, you really should put it on your life list... Meanwhile, I get to sit back and watch for moose from the dome car as we roll through the lake-dotted vastness of the boreal forest.” IfsShouldWatchesTakenCarTravelTrainListsForestsCanadaLakesVastnessDomesMoose Author:Elizabeth May
“The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.” IfsMindDoneEmotionTakenExampleAnxietyTrainManageVulnerableRelyMedicationCalmingCalm DownRelapse Author:Daniel Goleman
“There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity... That's the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there's a constant struggle between those. In the colleges, in the schools, do you train for passing tests, or do you train for creative inquiry?” PeopleTryingHas BeensSchoolYoungTurnsStruggleCreativeTakenStudentsCollegeTrainingEnlightenmentTestsOppositesConstantTrainEducationalDebtPassingPassingsConformityTrapsInquiryImposingIndoctrinationEducational SystemConstant StruggleVocational TrainingPassing A Test Author:Noam Chomsky
“The whole thing was set up very cleverly. The people who were torn from their normal lives and put on the trains may have heard that terrible things were happening in Auschwitz, but even up to the end, they kept on thinking: Perhaps it isn't so bad after all. And then they arrived and the SS told them: "The old people and the sick can take the truck. Anyone who is still young can walk." It took us a while to realize that the ones who were being driven were really being taken to the gas chambers.” PeopleThinkingMayStillsEndsWholeYoungRealizingWalksTakenHeardTerribleNormalHappeningsSickTrainDrivenGasTornOld PeopleTruckChamberTerrible ThingsNormal LifeAuschwitzVery CleverGas Chambers Author:Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
“Disciples [deep people] are not manufactured wholesale. They are produced one by one, because someone has taken the pains to discipline, to instruct and enlighten, to nurture and train one that is younger.” PeoplePainTakenDisciplineTrainDiscipleNurtureEnlighteningWholesale Author:J. Oswald Sanders
“Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.” RunningTakenTrainFactoriesStatus Quo Author:John Lennon