"We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon, 'schooling,' but historically that isnâ€™t true in either an intellectual or a financial sense. And plenty of people throughout the world today find a way to educate themselves without resorting to a system of compulsory secondary schools that all too often resemble prison."

-- John Taylor Gatto

#Country Quotes #School Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation.”
“Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.”
“I'm quadracontinental. I've got a life in London, New York, L.A. and Hawaii.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand.”
“More than all, and above all, [George] Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example.”
“Do we love watching things burn so much that our best and most valuable contribution is to help toss another match?”
“I like being employed, you know. That's my favorite kind of acting.”
“The secret of happiness is freedom.”

Source : "History of the Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides, book II, 2.43,

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