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“A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to accomplish this, it is necessary that their minds be held aloof from the babblement and discussions of the hour, that they may accustom themselves to take interest in the words and deeds of the greatest men, and so make themselves able and worthy to shape a larger and nobler future; but if their hours of leisure are spent over journals and reviews, they will, in later years, become the helpless victims of the newspaper habit.”

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“Mrs. O'Hair died horribly, a victim of the world she helped to shape. Without the Deity she fought so hard against, there is no right and wrong, increasingly people are ruled by their passions and humanity is a tragedy waiting to happen.”

People World Hard Happens Humanity Passion Waiting Hair Shapes Tragedy Died Victim Scary Deities

Author:Bill Murray

“I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.”

People Knows Character Novel Shapes Victim Motive Killers

Author:Elizabeth George

“We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.”

Past Force Shapes Direct Victim Historical Passive Pawns

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social realities over which they have less control and manage badly. Indeed, the annals of the famous and infamous are strewn with individuals who were both architects and victims of their life courses.”

People Reality Courses Individual Social Shapes Fame Gains Overcoming Victim Obstacles Manage Recognition Live By Architect Infamous Insurmountable

Author:Albert Bandura

“It is evident that youth is the first victim of the trend toward bureaucratization. The young men are deprived of any opportunity to shape their own fate.”

Men Firsts Young Opportunity Fate Youth Shapes Victim Young Man Trends Evident Deprived

Book:Bureaucracy: The Economist

Source: Bureaucracy: The Economist

“I was an adult and I was in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I was performing in this cave - they used to bury the plague victims in these caves underneath the streets of Edinburgh, when I got this weird cold sensation up my spine, it gave me this really weird feeling, and then I looked up and there was this white, sudden white shape, that just zapped from me and went straight to the light that was at the back of the room, and I just stopped cold and said to the audience, "Did you guys see that?" No one saw it.”

Said Feelings Light Used Guy White Rooms Audience Saws Streets Cold Shapes Adults Victim Performing Sensations Caves Festivals Plague Fringe Spine Really Weird Edinburgh Weird Feeling

Author:Rhys Darby

“The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.”

Thinking World Doe Asks Our Lives Events Masters Shapes Asking Victim Agency Passive

Author:Salman Rushdie

“In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.”

Choices Attention Shapes Criticism Victim Critics Size Literary Criticism

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country approaches to human rights issues. We are collective custodians of universal human rights standards, and any sense that we fall into camps of "accuser" and "accused" is absolutely corrosive of our joint purposes. The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does itself justice by automatically slipping into the "victim" mode.”

“And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct martyr/victim, aesthetic terrorists will not involve themselves in the dubious rewards of celebrity. The best of them will work alone, already a part of the enemy camp, and in chameleon-like style master the fifth-column algorithms to subvert the ancient regime. We won't know them by their name but their compensation will be to affect the outcome of the planet. Until then, there's a lot of work to be done.”

“Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.”

People Thinking World Law Knowing Shapes Advantage Capacity Victim Laws Of Nature

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson