"I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University."

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Eli Broad

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“I'm always the last person they go to with a sequel, because I'm the most skeptical. You know, I'm very proud of what we've done, and I don't want to screw up our series.”
“Winning is always fun, but the car is more important.”
“Meditation is the only way to freedom from stress as it is a dimension beyond the mind. All the stress and struggle are of the mind.”
“Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage, maim and destroy - forcefully, painfully, lastingly. . . . Plans have been disrupted, deals have been lost, companies have fallen, because of idle gossip or malicious slander. Reputations have been sullied, careers have been ruined, lives have been devastated, because of cruel lies or vicious rumors. . . . Your words have such power to do good or evil that they must be chosen carefully, wisely, and well.”
“Unfortunately there are still people in other areas who regard New York City not as part of the United States, but as a sort of excrescence fastened to our Eastern shore and peopled by the less venturesome waves of foreigners who failed to go West to the genuine American frontier.”

Source : Robert Moses (1956). “Working for the People: Promise and Performance in Public Service”
“The Devil is a Five-headed Snake, says the father. The son says, Nay, it's a Six-headed one. And then their hearts burn with hate for each others - and they live apart for many years.”

Source : "When I Think Of My People Broken Down". "Journal of South Asian Literature", Vol. 12, No. 1, published by Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University, (p. 11), 1976.
“Sometimes you win by losing.”

Source : "Jeremy Jackson Up Close and Personal From Hollywood to Humble". Interview with Alexandra Holzer, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2012.
“If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw”

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