"But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results."

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Source : "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

Margaret Spellings

#Believe Quotes #Holding On Quotes #Program Quotes

“Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.”
“Besides, killing all the humans will totally trash the cable schedule, and there are some shows I'm really excited to have back on the air.”
“My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.”
“The omelette tasted like flannel.”

Source : James Blish (2017). “A Case of Conscience”, p.109, Open Road Media
“Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.”
“Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.”
“Organized religion has a part in the evolution of personal religion. It is the material upon which personal religion is grafted, but the process of grafting must be individual. Every human soul must, through thought, prayer, and study, cultivate his [sic] own religion to suit himself.”
“Business friendly is the middle ground between being too cold and uncaring and the other extreme of being too familiar”

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