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More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I…
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We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do…
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What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe.…
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Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of…
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I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
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The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is…
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If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand…
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As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are…
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Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value…
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Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image…
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So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge…
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Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in…
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Lukewarm people give money to charity and to the church...so long as it doesn't impinge on their standard of living. Lukewarm people…
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There are still times I feel unhappy and I must smile, and there are times I want to cry and I must…
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One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap…
— Arundhati Roy
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Creative people rarely need to be motivated-they have their own inner drive that refuses to be bored. They refuse to be complacent.…
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People rarely do what they don't want to.
— Peter De Vries
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Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.
— Charles Wheelan
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For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.
— Rupert Brooke
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In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their…
— Robert Benton
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