"Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies."

-- Daniel Boone

#Men Quotes #White Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.”
“It is an awful thing to say, but if I was a Rover worker I would not be pinning my hopes on a deal by next Monday, I'd be looking for a new job.”
“It is quite exhilarating to speak about a God who has an incredible bias, a notorious bias in favor of the downtrodden. You look at Exodus and the Israelites' escape from a bottomless pit. God is not evenhanded. God is biased up to his eyebrows.”
“At no time have I ever done anything that would betray the public trust.”
“A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole.”
“The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security.”
“Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to be dawdling in their ideas, or whose every bar is sacred and must not be cut or altered.”

Source : Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA
“It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.”

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