"We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. We have allowed quantitative standards, so central to the adult economic system, to become the principal yardstick for our definition of our children's worth."

-- Kenneth Keniston

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“A pedestrian hit me and went under my car.”
“The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.”
“I'm not saying all seniors should be running a city or running a business, but I am saying seniors are good for a lot more than simply running a bath, baking cookies or babysitting grandchildren.”
“It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.”
“I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life ...”
“In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd just stop, and things would happen around him.”
“More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.”
“I haven't really got much get up and go. I can't believe I'm on the telly. I'm so lazy.”

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