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torturing
«I've come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.»
Author: Dr. Haim Ginott
| About:
Children,
Education,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
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«The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt»
Author: Thomas Merton
| About:
Suffering
| Keywords:
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«Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Housework
| Keywords:
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«On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
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«The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| About:
Health
| Keywords:
healthy, torture, tortured, torturer, torturers, torturing
«I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
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«Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now...»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
anesthesia, congeal, congealed, congealing, description, torturing
«Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Atheism
| Keywords:
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