Mark Takano famous quotes
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You cant not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.
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I think it is important for someone like me to not run away from who I am but embrace it. LGBT people across the country need to know they have a friend in Congress.
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I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.
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We, as Americans, do our level best to avoid being cruel to one another; we're led out of a diverse nation to come together and learn how to live with one another in a way that elevates everyone and our way of life. We've tried mightily to renew and imagine - imagine anew what it means to be free, what it means to be fair.
-- Mark Takano
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The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
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People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.
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Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
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It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
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To justify God's ways to man.
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I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?
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She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.
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