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Ivan Illich quote: "The public school has become the established church of secular..."

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

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We walked for some time, and grew to know each other, as best as we'd allow. These are some of the high points. They lack continuity. I don't apologize. I merely pointed it out, adding with some truth, I feel, that most liaisons lack continuity. We find ourselves in odd places at various times, and for a brief span we link our lives to others and then, our time elapsed, we move apart. Through a haze of pain occasionally, usually through a veil of memory that clings, then passes,... Harlan Ellison
Benjamin Franklin quote: "You may delay, but time will not."
You may delay, but time will not. Benjamin Franklin
Our country has suffered from an on-again, off-again energy policy that has failed to get us to energy independence. As President Obama has said, we need a comprehensive energy plan for the country that includes conventional resources like oil and gas, but that also takes advantage of wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and other renewable resources. Ken Salazar
In our own lives the voice of God speaks slowly, a syllable at a time. Reaching the peak of years, dispelling some of our intimate illusions and learning how to spell the meaning of life-experiences backwards, some of us discover how the scattered syllables form a single phrase. Abraham Joshua Heschel
Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%. Scott Walker
McCain needs Hillary to run because that's what keeps the Republican coalition together. She helps unite the Republican base. Chuck Todd
Francois de La Rochefoucauld quote: "If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather..."
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Once in a while a new government initiates a program to put power to better use, but its success or failure never really proves anything. In science, experiments are designed, checked, altered, repeated-- but not in politics... We have no real cumulative knowledge. History tells us nothing. That's the tragedy of a political reformer. B. F. Skinner
Angela Lansbury quote: "The theater is magical and addictive."
The theater is magical and addictive. Angela Lansbury
Tony Parsons quote: "The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary..."
The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement. Tony Parsons
Kate Adie quote: "I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip."
I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip. Kate Adie
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory. Emily Post
It's very contradictory for a man to teach about the murder in corporate capitalism, to isolate and expose the murderes behind it, to instruct that these madmen are completely without stops, are licentious, totally depraved? and then not make adequate preparations to defend himself from the madman's attack. Either they don't really believe their own spiel or they harbor some sort of subconscious death wish George Jackson
People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol. John Mahoney
And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ – she comprehended nothing and said softly: ‘Who? Rainer Maria Rilke