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I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but I have almost always found that children are a great deal more reliable in telling us what actually goes on in public school than many of the adult experts who develop policies that shape their destinies. Jonathan Kozol
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive..."
In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Whittaker Chambers quote: "[It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under..."
[It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under communisim. Whittaker Chambers
Sophocles quote: "Numberless are the world's wonders, but none more wonderful..."
Numberless are the world's wonders, but none more wonderful than man Sophocles
I know of no other practise which will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects. There is a great potential within each of us to go on learning. Regardless of our age, unless there be serious illness, we can read, study, drink in the writings of wonderful men and women. It is never too late to learn. Gordon B. Hinckley
you were already more beautiful than anything I dared to dream. In our years apart, my imaginings did their best to improve on you perfection. At night, your face was forever behind my eyes. And now I see that that vision who kept me company in my loneliness was a hag compared to the beauty now before me.” –Westley Enough about my beauty.” Buttercup said. “Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I’ve got a mind, Westley. Talk about that. William Goldman
The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care. Freya Stark
There are two kinds of love...in the safe kind you look for someone who's exactly like you. It's what most folks settle for. But then there's the other kind of love. Everyone's born with a ragged edge, and some folks crave that piece that's a perfect fit. You'll search for it forever, if you have to. And if you're lucky enough to find it, it looks so right, you start to tear at your own seams, thinking, maybe I could look just as perfect. But then, of course, when you try to get close to... Jodi Picoult
I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance. Jane Addams
George Bernard Shaw quote: "A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the..."
A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there. George Bernard Shaw
Could there be a slenderer, more insignificant thread in human history than this consciousness of a girl, busy with her small inferences of the way in which she could make her life pleasant? George Eliot
Jeane Kirkpatrick quote: "History is a better guide than good intentions."
History is a better guide than good intentions. Jeane Kirkpatrick
Vladimir Lenin quote: "It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience..."
It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it. Vladimir Lenin
That's all I've ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab humdrum corners of the soul. You can do it with a toaster, you can do it with a poem, you can do it by reaching out your hand to a stranger. It doesn't matter what form it takes. To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do. Paul Auster
The hand of Providence has been so conspicuous in all this [the course of the war] that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more wicked that has not gratitude to acknowledge his obligation? George Washington

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