"I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me."

-- A. E. Housman

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“Anybody who trusts an electronic voting machine should have theirÂ head examined.”
“Each person has their own brand and style and the way they do things.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that 'rewards work.' But as with punishments, they can never help someone develop a *commitment* to a task or action, a reason to keep doing it when there's no longer a payoff.”

Source : Alfie Kohn (2006). “Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason”, p.32, Simon and Schuster
“Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that.”
“I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man.”
“One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don't think it's impossible to do that, but it's difficult.”
“Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.”

Source : David Riesman (1950). “The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character”
“In Germany, many other countries, college tuition is free. Why isn`t free in America? Why do we have the highest rate of childhood poverty when other countries have rates much lower than we have? Why don`t we have pay equity for women workers? Why aren`t we leading the world in transforming our energy system in terms of climate change? We can do that. Are we dumb? Are we lazy? Not the case.”

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