"I should care about the education a child in Philadelphia, or Pittsburgh, or Erie, or Scranton received because if they didn't get a good education my life is diminished and all of our lives are enhanced if they get that good education. It is a shared enterprise and we need to recognize that."

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Source : FaceBook post by Tom Wolf from Aug 15, 2014

Tom Wolf

#Children Quotes #Philadelphia Quotes #Needs Quotes

“A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it.”
“Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.”
“I would make the tea on a Daniel Day-Lewis set just to observe how he crafts roles like he did in 'My Left Foot.' That was the equivalent of seeing Haley's Comet for me. I just couldn't understand how that was possible.”
“What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

Source : "Cosmos/ Encyclopaedia Galactica". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1980.
“I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.”
“Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.”
“Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.”

Source : Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow (2013). “The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World”, p.219, Harvard Business Press
“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”

Source : Walter Mosley (2013). “Blue Light”, p.346, Open Road Media

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