"America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next."

-- Nicholas D. Kristof

#Opportunity Quotes #America Quotes #Ladders Quotes

“I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy.”
“A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.”
“The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.”
“If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.”
“You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand”
“I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.”
“Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead.”
“Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of interpretation. This conflict has the function of breaking down automatism of perception and occurs simultaneously on the many levels of a work of art ... All levels may carry meaning.”

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