"The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy."

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Source : Auguste Comte, John Henry Bridges (1865). “A General View of Positivism”, p.383, London, Trübner and Company

Auguste Comte

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“Creating a high-functioning education system requires all the strategies involved in building high-functioning organisations anywhere. It requires a deliberate and aggressive strategy to ensure extraordinary talent at every level of the system, from the superintendentcy to district offices to principalships to classrooms. It requires building systems for accountability; offering parents the ability to choose their public schools is the ultimate form of this. It requires building a strong culture at the system and school levels based on high expectations for student achievement.”

Source : Source: www.economist.com
“The English were infuriating. Everything was designed to put an outsider at a disadvantage. If you had to ask, you didn't belong.”
“The dignity of the act is the deliberate, circumspect, open, and serene performance by these men in the clear light of day, and by a concurrent purpose, of a civic duty, which embraced the greatest hazards to themselves and to all the people from whom they held this deputed discretion, but which, to their sober judgments, promised benefits to that people and their posterity, from generation to generation, exceeding these hazards and commensurate with its own fitness.”
“When we're focused on what we want, things begin to slot perfectly into place.”
“Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5”
“My great hope for us as young women is to start being kinder to ourselves so that we can be kinder to each other. To stop shaming ourselves and other people for things we don't know the full story onâ€”whether someone is too fat, too skinny, too short, too tall, too loud, too quiet, too anything. There's a sense that we're all â€˜tooâ€™ something, and we're all not enough,”

Source : "The Really Amazing Spider-Man 2 Star Emma Stone On Tuning Out The Haters And Owning Who You Are". Interview with Brittany Burke, www.seventeen.com. May 2, 2014.
“If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.”
“Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to "rejoice together, mourn together," and to "delight in each other, make others' conditions our own.”

Source : M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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