"Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards."

-- James S. Coleman

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“I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am.”
“So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.”

Source : "Warwick Davis Talks Leprechauns, Johnny Depp, and His Desire To "Just Keep Working"". Interview with Scott Neumyer, www.ifc.com. March 16, 2012.
“I was a young cat, and I was very fast, but I wasn't telling no kind of story.”
“One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.”
“War itself is the enemy of the human race.”
“I'm hopeful that we'll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it.”

Source : "James Cameron emerges from 'alien world' at ocean's depths" by Josh Levs, edition.cnn.com. March 27, 2012.
“It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.”
“If people maintain the belief systems that empower them, they'll keep coming back with enough action and enough resourcefulness to succeed eventually.”

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