"But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you."

-- Robert Sternberg

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“The struggle for justice doesn't end with me. This struggle is for all the Troy Davises who came before me and all the ones who will come after me.”

Source : "California Voters Should Remember Troy Davis This November" by Ben Jealous, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2016.
“Evolution is the most important battle that Christians have to fight today, a battle we must win by any means, fair or foul!”
“I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.”
“You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.”
“You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?”

Source : "5 Questions w/ 'Shameless' Star Shanola Hampton". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. January 10, 2013.
“Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.”

Source : Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.138, Transaction Publishers
“There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.”
“You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain, too much love drives a man insane. You broke my will, but what a thrill. Goodness gracious, great balls of fire.”

Source : Song: Great Balls of Fire

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