"As Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority."

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Source : "Advancing Education: A Governor’s Lesson" by Michael F. Easley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2009.

Mike Easley

#Two Quotes #Priorities Quotes #North Carolina Quotes

“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.”
“Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]”
“He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to deny his ownlife until the present moment, indeed in advance until the last moment, as worthless. He who realizes that culture is the giving of form will also see that the highest forms that it is given to the human spirit to recognize have always been, psychologically considered, such evasions from the present. Considerations such as these do not at all square with the direction of America's mind.”
“My dad was undeniably famous when I was a kid - he was on Wogan and Clive James and the radio every week, but as far as I was concerned he wasn't famous enough. My best friend was Ben Brooke-Taylor. His dad Tim was in The Goodies - that was famous.”

Source : Jewish Chronicle, February 23, 2007.
“The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.”
“I don't like feeling hemmed in and I don't like feeling that I'm repeating myself.”

Source : "Jenny Slate and Nick Kroll Q&A: ‘My Blind Brother’ Stars Dig Deep On Complicated Characters You Can’t Help But Root For". Interview with Steve Greene, www.indiewire.com. September 23, 2016.
“Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.”
“Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.”

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