"What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone."

-- Thomas Hood

#Writing Quotes #Fate Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging the education system to come up with ever higher standards to meet the expectation of employers.”
“Well, sometimes love seems easy. Like..it's easy to love rain...and hawks. And it's easy to love wild plums...and the moon. But with people, seems like love's a hard thing to know. It gets all mixed up. I mean, you can love one person in one way and another person in another way. But how do you know you love the right one in every way?”

Source : Billie Letts (2001). “Where the Heart Is”, p.211, Hachette UK
“Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.”

Source : John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.51, New Society Publishers
“I spent a year in Professor Baker's famous class at Harvard. There, too, I learned some things that were useful to me-particularly what not to do. Not to take ten lines, for instance, to say something that can be said in one line.”
“There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.”
“When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.”
“I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.”
“AFC Wimbledon in the League! Talk about the ashes rising from the flames.”

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