"One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'."

-- Robert Browning

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“Knowledge is of more value than gold”
“People who dream of something bigger and better are good role models.”
“My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.”
“When you raise your opinion of yourself and what you are capable of it has a decided influence on what you do.”
“It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology.”
“When you first think of making a monster movie you have to realize that a lot of people may be down on you because there is a big prejudice against such films.”

Source : Interview with Brent Simon, www.ign.com. March 8, 2007.
“Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.”
“But what is now encompassed by the one word (â€œschoolâ€) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and intention, serve entirely different roles. Both are needed for our nationâ€™s governance. But children in one set of schools are educated to be governors; children in the other set of schools are trained for being governed. The former are given the imaginative range to mobilize ideas for economic growth; the latter are provided with the discipline to do the narrow tasks the first group will prescribe.”

Source : Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.212, Broadway Books

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