"Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny."

-- Fisher Ames

#Reputation Quotes #Failing Quotes #Scrutiny Quotes

“But when I do book signings and personal appearances, the audiences are mostly white. Growing up here, I expected that and understand it. Black audiences won't come out for a white writer for the most part. It really is just a fact of life.”
“Donald Trump hates the Common Core, created by governors and state education commissioners, and initially adopted by 45 states. [Betsy] DeVos has actually supported the Common Core until now.”

Source : "Donald Trump Picks A Republican Activist As Education Secretary". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 24, 2016.
“We can only learn so much and live.”
“The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.”
“But what I want most of all is a normal life.”
“Once upon hearing a friend's bashing comment I said, "Did you reach that conclusion on your own, or did it come through prayer?"”
“Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life”
“So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.”

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