"Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public schools aren't producing the results we want - it's that we're not giving them what they need to help students achieve at high levels. K-12 education in the United States is deeply antiquated."

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Source : Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

Eli Broad

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“the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood.”

Source : Becky Freeman (1998). “The Best of Becky Freeman”, Inspirational Press
“In Arthurian battle the trick for us was to figure out how to give it the scale that the movie deserved and fitted in a financial box that was necessary. We made the battle quite a bit bigger than originally intended, just because we felt that being part of the opening sequence of the movie we really needed to grab the audience's attention.”
“I'm an actor, because I get to see other sides of life and I get to be other people and it excites me so much.”
“The reason diets and other how-to's don't work for most people is the same reason most how-to books and courses don't work for most people. It isn't that the actions are wrong. It's that people don't keep doing them.”

Source : Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.19, Greenleaf Book Group
“One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.”

Source : "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee". Book by Dee Brown. Chapter 12, 1970.
“Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.”
“Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'”
“Words, however, are things.”

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