"I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education."

-- Stephen Ambrose

#World Quotes #Study Quotes #Lifetime Quotes

“A Status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.”
“In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.”
“Loving is a journey with water and with stars, with smothered air and abrupt storms of flour: loving is a clash of lightning-bolts and two bodies defeated by a single drop of honey.”
“Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed of, things to be proud of; she wouldn't surrender so meekly to a condemning judgment.”

Source : John Jakes (2012). “The Furies”, p.584, Open Road Media
“The fierce words of Jesus addressed to the Pharisees of His day stretch across the bands of time. Today they are directed not only to fallen televangelists but to each of us. We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others. They are to be taken personally by each of us. This is the form and shape of Christian Pharisaism in our time. Hypocrisy is not hte prerogative of people in high places. The most impoverished among us is capable of it. Hypocrisy is the natural expression of what is meanest in us all.”
“value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters.”
“I'm definitely always drawn to the injustice of people who have been imprisoned for things they didn't do. But also lots about abortion and gay marriage. Civil issues are usually what I am drawn to.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.”

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