"Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled."

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Thomas A. Bailey

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“Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices.”
“... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.”

Source : Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.274, University of Chicago Press
“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.”
“Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.”
“When the good times come around, they gallup in like wild horses. You just try to stay on them for as long as you can. And when they throw you offyou just wait in the shade until they come around again.”
“Russell Wilson knows who he is. Heâ€™s not a running quarterback, heâ€™s not a throwing quarterback â€“ heâ€™s an athlete back there playing the quarterback position. He knows that, he understands it and his team allows him to be who he is.”
“Figure skating is a bit dated - it's like that tweed jacket you pull out of the back of your closet from time to time, and I'm going to try to Chanel it up a little bit.”
“I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them.”

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