"Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins."

-- James S. Coleman

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“Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.”
“When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it.”
“Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.”
“I am pretty good at arithmetic, and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight. But we will continue to fight for every vote and every delegate we can get.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Our nuclear free status means that we decline to acquiesce in the strategies of nuclear deterrence. We will not turn a blind eye to them, and pretend that the weapons are no longer a threat. We will not in any way tolerate the testing of nuclear weapons, or their manufacture, or their deployment.”

Source : David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.
“The democracy which shows up in the United States and in England is not an ideal democracy, because the will of the people is under the pressure of property, which is in the hands of the wealthy capitalists.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.
“Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?”
“Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.”

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