"He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle."

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Source : The Washington Post, October 21, 1924.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#Memorable Quotes #Looks Quotes #Pickles Quotes

“The Boov frowned. 'Everybodies always is wanting to make a clone for to doing their work. If you are not wanting to do your work, why would a clone of you want to do your work?”

Source : Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.69, A&C Black
“In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.”
“John [Mulaney] likes to say I'm like a district attorney with absolutely no jurisdiction whatsoever.”
“Nashville used to have more integrity than just looking at the bottom line.”
“More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to ***** the positive impacts of homeownership on families, communities and on the nation's economy.”
“Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.”
“Terrorism is carried out purposefully, in a cold-blooded, calculated fashion. The declared goals of the terrorist may change from place to place. He supposedly fights to remedy wrongs -- social, religious, national, racial. But for all these problems his only solution is the demolition of the whole structure of society. No partial solution, not even the total redressing of the grievance he complains of, will satisfy him -- until our social system is destroyed or delivered into his hands.”
“But what is now encompassed by the one word (â€œschoolâ€) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and intention, serve entirely different roles. Both are needed for our nationâ€™s governance. But children in one set of schools are educated to be governors; children in the other set of schools are trained for being governed. The former are given the imaginative range to mobilize ideas for economic growth; the latter are provided with the discipline to do the narrow tasks the first group will prescribe.”

Source : Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.212, Broadway Books

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