"The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective."

-- John Katzman

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“It was disconcerting that being in love felt lonelier than lonelines.”
“I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.”

Source : 1982 Owen Brademas. The Names, ch.1.
“If anybody had a sense of history, it wasn't me, I'll tell you that. I, I was just enjoying life and, and making a living and, and, you know, listening to all this good music. No, there was never in my mind any kind of sense of history, nothing.”
“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”
“I wasn't funny as a kid. I remember enjoying comedians, but I never understood it was a job choice or a profession.”
“I'm a devout individual so I remain faithful to my church.”

Source : "On Being Gay, Conservative and Catholic". SPIEGEL interview, www.spiegel.de. November 23, 2012.
“The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing in biological, political, and socioeconomic fairy tales) as long as possible ... that students should be given the best possible maps of the territories of experience in order that they may be prepared for life, is not as popular as might be assumed.”
“I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naÃ¯ve - because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.”

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