"They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America."

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Source : "The Business of Government Hour" with Paul Lawrence, www.businessofgovernment.org. August 30, 2003.

Alphonso Jackson

#School Quotes #Pride Quotes #America Quotes

“The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.”
“A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.”
“We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.”
“Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.”
“To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self-inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth, or heal our sick planet, is evidence of our immense capacity for self delusion. Rather, we need to protect ourselves from ourselves.”
“Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.”

Source : Anthony Storr (2015). “Solitude a Return to the Self”, p.81, Simon and Schuster
“The artist thing is just natural. If that comes out, the music, the songs, I need some actual time which I dedicate to it. But I don't have to sit down eight hours a day in order to get out what I need to create. That is just always bubbeling inside and than evetually it just comes out.”

Source : Source: themessage.at
“If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago. ... This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and consistent mathematical formalism.”

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