"For teachers, getting annual test scores several months after taking the test and in most cases long after the students have departed for the summer sends a message: Here's the data that would have helped you improve your teaching based on the needs of these students if you would have had it in time, but since it's late and there's nothing you can do about it, we'll just release it to the newspapers so they can editorialize again about how bad our schools are."

-- Douglas B. Reeves

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“Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.”
“She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs, pouring out from under furniture, only reaching the sky when the spaces near the ground were full.”

Source : Katherine Howe (2010). “The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane”, p.148, Penguin UK
“The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.”

Source : Cesare Beccaria (marchese di) (1963). “On crimes and punishments”, Bobbs-Merrill Company
“It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.”

Source : Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.112, Penguin UK
“Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.”
“He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.”
“Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge.”
“An old novel has a history of its own.”

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