"In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test."

-- Dave Barry

#Doe Quotes #Tests Quotes #Aptitude Quotes

“Some of what these pamphlets [of astrological forecasts] say will turn out to be true, but most of it time and experience will expose as empty and worthless. The latter part will be forgotten literally: written on the winds while the former will be carefully entered in people's memories, as is usual with the crowd.”
“The policy that received more attention particularly in the past decade and a half or so has been the US cocaine policy, the differential treatment of crack versus powder cocaine and question is how my research impacted my view on policy. Clearly that policy is not based on the weight of the scientific evidence. That is when the policy was implemented, the concern about crack cocaine was so great that something had to be done and congress acted in the only way they knew how, they passed policy and that's what a responsible society should do.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“In my work, I want to create an understanding, not about what a painting looks like but about what a painting says.”

Source : Source: www.artpractical.com
“Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.”
“I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.”
“I pulled myself up and told myself to stop these ridiculous thoughts, wondering why it is that we can never stop trying to analyse the motives of people who have no personal interest in us, in the vain hope of finding that perhaps they may have just a little after all.”

Source : Barbara Pym (2006). “Excellent Women”, p.162, Penguin
“Fashion is a very particular world, as you know.”
“When people are watching you, it makes you think twice about what you do, and the things you say, and the people you hang around with.”

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