"The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known."

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Source : Clark Kerr, Marian L. Gade, Maureen Kawaoka (1994). “Troubled Times for American Higher Education: The 1990s and Beyond”, p.182, SUNY Press

Clark Kerr

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“The purest form of prayer we can engage in is to feel peace: the kind of peace that comes when we surrender totally to what is, as isâ€”in the knowledge and comfort that Spirit has it all handled and that it will all work out for the best if we just get ourselves out of the way.”

Source : Colin Tipping (2010). “Radical Forgiveness: A Revolutionary Five-Stage Process to Heal Relationships, Let Go of Anger and Blame, Find Peace in Any Situation”, p.170, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.”
“I pretend I'm not hurt, I walk about the world like I'm having fun.”
“I vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating?”

Source : Karen Hawkins (2012). “The Taming of a Scottish Princess”, p.81, Simon and Schuster
“The stories circulating that Kanye West's laptop has been stolen are completely false. His laptop has never been out of his possession. Hence, the laptop has not been hacked, and there has been no leak of personal data such as unreleased music, photographs, designs, videos or any other personal files. The leak today of the unreleased track 'Awesome' was unrelated and completely coincidental.”
“I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.”
“I've been busy for a long, long time. I've received a ton of awards in the past few years ... I think they're really great, it's really an honor, but s**t - I really have to work for these things.”

Source : "Carrie Mae Weems and a shifting stage". Interview with Tess Mayer, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 4, 2016.
“Often we fail to voice and act on our values because, before we even apply our best thinking to developing an action plan, we engage in process of "pre-emptive rationalization." At some deep level, we anticipate difficulty and resistance so we start to back away from our own instinctive values perspective.”

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