"We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken when it doesn't prove up to the task."

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Source : Chris Hayes (2012). “Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy”, p.222, Crown

Chris Hayes

#Broken Quotes #Tasks Quotes #Sin Quotes

“If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third.”

Source : Heather Brewer (2008). “Ninth Grade Slays #2: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.140, Penguin
“Even the Lord had skeptical members of His party.”

Source : "The Last Good Campaign" by Thurston Clarke, www.vanityfair.com. June 2008.
“One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world's problems will produce anything of lasting value. Such a generation, even when equipped with the most modern technology, will be essentially primitive it will stand in awe of nature, and submit to the tutelage of medicine men.”
“For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.”
“People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy. I can't say they're wrong.”

Source : Michel Houellebecq (2003). “Platform: A Novel”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
“Politics is about the control of a limited number of resources by a limited number of people who think that number is too many”
“You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mitch Albom from Feb 08, 2017
“My father stood behind a bar in the back of the room all those years, so one day I could stand behind a podium in the front of a room. That journey, from behind that bar to behind this podium, goes to the essence of the American miracle - that we're exceptional not because we have more rich people here. We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here.”

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