"Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps."

-- James Heckman

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“But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.”
“That conduct often seems ridiculous the secret reasons of which are wise and solid.”
“Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled.”
“A cold supper, were you thinking? I asked dubiously. I was not, he said firmly, I mean to light a roaring fire in the kitchen hearth, fry up a dozen eggs in butter, and eat them all, then lay ye down on the hearth rug and roger ye 'till you - is that all right? he inquired, noticing my look. 'Til I what? I asked fascinated by his description of the evening's program. 'Til ye burst into flame and take me with ye, I suppose, he said, and stooping, swooped me up into his arms and carried me across the darkened threshold.”
“Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It is my life story, thus far, which just so happens to include some people you may have heard of.”
“In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.”

Source : 1966 Speech to the US Senate, 21 Apr.
“The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.”
“The enforcement is the flip side to the growth. And that's OK.”

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