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Them Quotes by Jonathan Kozol
- If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't fatten…
- If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by God and not yet soiled…
- By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of…
- I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.
- Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future…
- I always want to tell these young idealists that the world is not as dangerous as many in the older generation want them to believe...The…
- The rich...should beg the poor to forgive us for the bread we bring them. Healthy people sometimes feel they need to beg forgiveness too, although…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster