"For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy."

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Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Ed Begley, Jr.

#College Quotes #Community Quotes #Leader Quotes

“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”
“As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin on any human being. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torture, least of all to death, for the purpose of upholding or promoting her ideas. She presents herself unstained by cruelties and crimes. But in the Vatican-we have only to recall the Inquisition-the hands that are now raised in appeals to the Most Merciful are crimsoned. They have been steeped in blood!”

Source : John William Draper (1875). “History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...”, p.11, New York, D. Appleton
“If the year 2000 can help us move into the future, that's fine, but I am afraid that people see it as a full stop and that one can take a big breath afterwards - you can't.”
“Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.”
“The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.”

Source : Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur [Illustrated]”, p.23, XinXii
“President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.”
“[T]he historian and the detective have much in common.”
“That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest, loving, and unselfish attention to our impressions of it.”

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