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“Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.”
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“The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything”
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“Whether I praise or criticize someone's action, I imply that I am their judge, that I'm engaged in rating them or what they have done.”
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“A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be.”
Source : Sugata Mitra (2006). “The Hole in the Wall: Self-Organising Systems in Education”, New York NY
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“You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”
Source : Jodi Picoult (2001). “Salem Falls”, p.299, Simon and Schuster
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“Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in one's mouth, or having the racket of a bulldozer in one's ear for an hour or two on end.”
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“Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has burned to the ground. The city's flag acknowledges as much. Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.”
Source : Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.33, Penguin
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“What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but have been lived, used by what we do?”
