"And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school."

-- James T. Walsh

#School Quotes #Kids Quotes #United States Quotes

“It's masturbation for writers to be able to write this absolutely outrageous personality, in a character that you somehow agree with, part of the time, at least.”
“Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination of the Motions belonging to each.”

Source : Thomas Young, George Peacock, John Leitch (1855). “Miscellaneous Works: Scientific memoirs”, p.157
“My readership seems to be the sensitive people, for the most part. Then there are the occasional fans who are like, "Ah, video games!"”
“We live in this world where loosing our phones are more dramatic than loosing our virginity.”
“I believe that religious witness should not mobilize public authority to impose a view where a decision is inherently private in nature or where people are deeply divided about whether it is... Americans are plainly and persistently divided about abortion and the fiat of government cannot settle the issue as a matter of conscience or of conduct.”
“If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all the hearts to behold the miraculous change.”
“Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.”

Source : Charles Stross (2010). “The Fuller Memorandum”, p.33, Penguin
“For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.”

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