"What we lack is a basic willingness to see literature as providing some kind of necessary foundation. Our society still expects schools to prepare their charges for work only and not for life. As such, literature is construed as at best technically useless and random, at worst socially disruptive."

-- Gwee Li Sui

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“I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.”
“I think I have a particular logic of my own that has to do with sound and sampling sound, and there isn't a great deal of music out there in that field. Whereas, harmonically and melodically, there's loads.”

Source : Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2006.
“I think that thereâ€™s too much sugar in the world and not enough salt. Kids want to be challenged. Humans want to aspire to something. You donâ€™t win in life and you donâ€™t win in athletics with softness or selfishness.”
“Here I stand, hobbled in a sack of doom, determined to tear out of it, knowing that I will.”

Source : Kate Simon (1986). “A Wider World: Portraits in Adolescence”, HarperCollins Publishers
“Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of faith.”
“Your Father in heaven knows your name and knows your circumstance. He hears your prayers. He knows your hopes and dreams, including your fears and frustrations. And He knows what you can become through faith in Him.”
“Men may not read the gospel in sealskin, or the gospel in morocco, or the gospel in cloth covers, but they can't get away from the gospel in shoe leather.”
“To teach means scarcely anything more than to show how things differ from one another in their different purposes, forms, and origins. ... Therefore, he who differentiates well teaches well.”

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