"Most people get better when they face competition."

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Source : "Condoleezza Rice: Education Could Be 'Greatest National Security Challenge'". "PBS Newshour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. March 19, 2012.

Joel Klein

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“I don't consider myself a good actor at all. I just do what I want to do, and I'm just having fun doing it.”
“Just 'cause you're following a well-marked trail don't mean that whoever made it knew where they were goin'.”
“But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of this dominant function, amid the din of political and religious strife, is the most vital of all the revolutions which have marked the development of modern civilisation.”
“I'm just looking to get through the day.”
“I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.”
“Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.”

Source : "Gently And Firmly". Book by C.P. Varkey, p. 87, 2010.
“Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.”
“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”

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