"Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art."

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Wendy Davis

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“God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.”
“If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. ... But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity.”

Source : "The puzzle of motivation". TED Talks, www.ted.com. July 2009.
“Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.”
“I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.”

Source : "Don Cheadle Says President Obama Should Have Been More ‘Gangster,’ Clarifies Comments". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 30, 2011.
“I know that stress on me mentally and physically will only help me improve not only as a human being but as a wrestler.”
“I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.”
“It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud. Most believers in a religion understand this when examining the claims of other religions.”
“The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.”

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