"I donâ€™t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldnâ€™t be the person I am today if it wasnâ€™t for the opportunities the library gave me."

-- Alan Moore

#School Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already there.”

Source : "American Experience", www.pbs.org.
“Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.”

Source : Curt Sachs (2008). “The Rise of Music in the Ancient World, East and West”, p.311, Courier Corporation
“It is perverse that a nation so rich should neglect its children so shamefully. Our attitude toward them is cruelly ambivalent. Weare sentimental about children but in our actions do not value them. We say we love them but give them little honor.”
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
“Clever is the eunuch version of funny.”
“If now, against my will, you cause me to be polluted, a twofold purity will be gloriously imputed to me. You cannot bend my will to your purpose; whatever you do to my body, that cannot happen to me.”
“Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has become their place of confinement during an increasing part of their lives.”
“Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.”

Source : "The Complete Gale Norton Interview". Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.

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