"Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools."

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Michelle Rhee

#School Quotes #Overcoming Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could be called in any sense privileged, it has shown the largest and most consistent concern for the well-being of the classes which lie below it in the social scale.”
“The trick in life is to hang out until the miracles come.”
“All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says.”
“The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognizable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called into question.”

Source : "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind".
“They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you canâ€™t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.”
“The most revealing books are the Holy Koran and the Holy Bible. The Bhagavad Gita is a great book as well, and the works of Buddha. These are the major influences on the world.”
“Don't sell yourself short. No one will value you. Set a fair price for you, your book, your services, whatever it is that you have to offer. Most of us set way too low a price. Put it a little higher than you would normally be inclined to do. The worst that can happen is someone will come along and steal it.”
“Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston Churchill and Adolph Hitler. Because storytelling is a form of persuasive jujitsu, and because world is full of black belt storytellers, the corporate leader has to train both his offensive and defensive moves”

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