"If you grew up in a lower-income community, or less well-off, the belief is that the way to change that circumstance is through education."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Michelle Rhee

#Community Quotes #Belief Quotes #Circumstances Quotes

“The greatest flight I've ever flown was coming home.”
“When Clapper raised his hand and lied to the American public, was anyone tried? Were any charges brought? Within 24 hours of going public, I had three charges against me.”
“In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their race, but by the words they use. Writing begins with language, and it is in that initial choosing, as one sifts through the wayward lushness of our wonderful mongrel English, that choice of vocabulary and grammar and tone, the selection on the palette, that determines who's sitting at that desk. Language creates the writer's attitude toward the particular story he's decided to tell.”

Source : Donald E. Westlake (2014). “The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany”, p.28, University of Chicago Press
“I think for me I've always loved being in the water and I love training and I love being at the pool so you know it's not a chore for me to go training, but come race day I would never just train to train - I train to race.”

Source : "Stephanie Rice, champion swimmer". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 14, 2010.
“You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.”

Source : Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.391, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that they can't wiretap. I figured out how to jam their person-tracking technology. I can turn innocent people into suspects and turn guilty people into innocents in their eyes. I could get metal onto an airplane or beat a no-fly list. I figured this stuff out by looking at the web and by thinking about it. If I can do it, terrorists can do it. They told us they took away our freedom to make us safe. Do you feel safe?”
“The great soul surrenders itself to fate.”
“You're a grown up, and you get to decide what behaviors affect you for five minutes versus what behaviors change you as a person.”

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