"I'm skeptical about even educating voters as a chance for being successful. You know, when we look at what people retain from high school a year after they've graduated, they've forgotten most everything about history and civics and everything, and I think the main worry here is that because your individual vote counts for so little, you just don't have a strong incentive to invest in the knowledge, to retain the knowledge, to process information in a rational way."

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Source : Source: www.cbc.ca

Jason Brennan

#Strong Quotes #School Quotes #Successful Quotes

“I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.”
“Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.”
“I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.”

Source : "How Dan Harmon Drives Himself Crazy Making Community" by Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. September 22, 2011.
“A story can sing the truth and not just tell it.”

Source : Andrew M. Greeley, Robert Barron (2007). “The Great Mysteries: Experiencing Catholic Faith from the Inside Out”, p.8, Rowman & Littlefield
“The key to success is often the ability to adapt”
“God knows what each one of us is dealing with. He knows our pressures. He knows our conflicts. And He has made a provision for each and every one of them. That provision is Himself in the person of the Holy Spirit, indwelling us and empowering us to respond rightly.”

Source : Kay Arthur (2009). “As Silver Refined: Learning to Embrace Life's Disappointments”, p.68, WaterBrook
“I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.”
“I didn't want to talk about what happened, so it seemed safest not to talk at all.”

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