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There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before. Jonathan Kozol
C. S. Lewis quote: "If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had..."
If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo. C. S. Lewis
We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tom Robbins quote: "Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That..."
Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving. Tom Robbins
All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works. Seth Godin
If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the mind. Jeanette Winterson
All that hurry can blur the truth that life is a zero-sum equation. Every minute I save will get used on something else, possibly no more sublime than staring at the newel post trying to remember what I just ran upstairs for. Barbara Kingsolver
Dodie Smith quote: "There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so..."
There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. Dodie Smith
Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive Karl Lagerfeld
In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it. Thucydides
L. M. Montgomery quote: "Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine..."
Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while. L. M. Montgomery
Just suppose that the dead do revisit the living. That something approximately to be described as Jim can return to see how George is making out. Would this be at all satisfactory? Would it even be worthwhile? At best, surely, it would be like the brief visit of an observer from another country who is permitted to peep in for a moment from the vast outdoors of his freedom and see, at a distance, through glass, this figure who sits solitary at the small table in the narrow room, eating his... Christopher Isherwood
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. George Bernard Shaw
There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night. Haruki Murakami
Jackson Pollock quote: "It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as..."
It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said. Jackson Pollock

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