"Our opportunities to do good are our talents."

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Source : Cotton Mather (1825). “Essays to Do Good”, p.69

Cotton Mather

#Opportunity Quotes #Second Chance Quotes #Chance Quotes

“Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.”

Source : Gavin Extence (2013). “The Universe versus Alex Woods”, p.67, Hachette UK
“...Lag...occurred between an initial discovery and its effective clinical application. We analyzed 111 such lags: 8% amounted to 0.1 to 1 year; another 18% were 1 to 10 years; 17% (lagged) 11-20 years;...39% (lagged) 21-50 years; only 18% required more than 50 years for application.”
“I'm sure that a lot of my friends - even though they're curious about the music of nations that are not on their radar - still don't know what Kuwaiti music sounds like.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“A generation which ignores history has no past â€” and no future.”
“In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual approach of St. Dominic, the easy conversations about things that matter of St. Philip Neri, the manual labor of St. Benedict.”
“But now the world, he thought, had taken them. He knew that this could suddenly happen. One day you just woke up, and there was somewhere that you needed to be.”
“If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the rationale for authorizing for-profit charters or charter management organizations with high-paid executives, since their profits and high salaries are paid by taxpayers' dollars?”

Source : Diane Ravitch (2013). “Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools”, p.219, Vintage
“Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.”

Source : John Boyne (2012). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.83, Random House

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