"Education is a precondition to survival in America today."

-- Marian Wright Edelman

#Education Quotes #America Quotes #Survival Quotes

“Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.”
“I think certain filmmakers going into Sundance or other big festivals should consider screening more for press and tastemakers before the festival. The traditional wisdom has always been the opposite: to not screen for anyone prior, let your film be seen by an audience, and generate the buzz from there.”
“The ceremonial and religious uses of psychedelics are much older than their recreational uses and abuses. For most of their history, they have been mysterious, dangerous substances and must be treated respectfully.”

Source : Humphry Osmond, Jerome Agel (1981). “Predicting the past: memos on the enticing universe of possibility”, Macmillan Pub Co
“We have to take the biblical truth and start applying it in the statehouse, the schoolhouse, and the marketplace.”

Source : Rod Parsley (2009). “Culturally Incorrect: How Clashing Worldviews Affect Your Future”, p.77, Thomas Nelson Inc
“I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.”

Source : Recalled on his death, 7 Sep 1969.
“Professional sports are something they can't control.”
“I'm not the greatest communicator. I kind of internalize a lot.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“The less I talk about being black, the better.”

Source : "From Space to South Africa: Idris Elba on Prometheus and Playing Mandela". Interview with Jada Yuan, www.vulture.com. May 27, 2012.

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