"When you finish college, you don't suddenly have thousands of dollars a year to spend elsewhere-in fact, you have to find a way to pay back your loans."

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Source : "Did Obama's speech play fast and loose with the facts?" by Deborah Charles, www.reuters.com. September 7, 2012.

Maya MacGuineas

#College Quotes #Years Quotes #Pay Quotes

“As a dancer, one of my many teachers along the way made the comment that who I was onstage and who I was off were two totally different people.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.”
“I wanted to write a play about double nature ... one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff. I just wanted to give a taste of what it feels like to be two-sided. It's a real thing, double nature. I think we're split in a much more devastating way than psychology can ever reveal. It's not so cute. Not some little thing we can get over. It's something we've got to live with”
“We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.”
“Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.”
“What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?”
“Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it.”
“When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude. Information that is consistent with our pre-existing beliefs is often accepted at face value, whereas evidence that contradicts them is critically scrutinized and discounted. Our beliefs may thus be less responsive than they should to the implications of new information”

Source : Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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