"We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves."

-- Stephen Downes

#Educational Quotes #Moving Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I do think that people have an obligation to give back but that doesn't necessarily mean that you give back just the traditional way. Maybe there's new ways to give back and make a contribution. I'm looking forward to some mix of philanthropy - maybe through a somewhat different prism - as well as helping entrepreneurs build some significant new businesses.”
“evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has in mind. Some of its inventions prove elegant, while in others you can see the seams and dried glue.”

Source : Natalie Angier (2008). “The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“However we pass Time, he passes still, Passing away whatever the pastime, And, whether we use him well or ill, Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.”
“Too bad. There's a party on the coast. I thought we could go." He actually sounded sincere. ( a bit after) I affected a yawn. "Well, like I said, it's a school night." In hopes of convincing myself more than him, I added, " if this party is something you'd be interested in, I can almost guarantee I won't be." There, I though. Case closed- page 77”
“I have yet to met a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the unessentials.”
“I was going to go to church, but I decided to get doughnuts instead.”
“If womenâ€™s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.”
“I thought there was a chance right from the beginning.”

Source : "Wainwright: Achilles rehab has gone 'perfectly', bullpen stint in reach", www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2015.

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