"There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty."

-- Cedric Richmond

#Strong Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Crime Quotes

“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.”

Source : Charles Franklin Kettering (1959*). “In Memoriam, Charles F. Kettering”
“Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.”
“This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each other with more integrity, more curiosity, more wholeheartedness.”

Source : "What Is Art? Favorite Famous Definitions, from Antiquity to Today" by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. June 22, 2012.
“Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I'd just like to mace them. I want to tell them that I envy their upbringings that were so clean, so free of futurelessness. And I want to throttle them for blindly handing over the world to us like so much skid-marked underwear.”
“I have always been Fred Durst and I've always been me.”
“I rarely accept things on blind faith, especially the orthodoxy of any given practice, or any given practicum. I'm like, "Oh come on. Is this the way to do things?"”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Lies are like sleeping pills. You should only use them when you absolutely have to. They spoil everything if you make a habit of them.”
“Some things just wonâ€™t go away, no matter how hard you scrub.”

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