"There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all."

-- Edward Hoagland

#Childhood Quotes #Periods Quotes

“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”
“"Technology" is a cross-curriculum perspective running through the new Australia Curriculum, and there are a number of technology subject areas as well that include coding, which has not previously been part of the Australian Curriculum.”

Source : "The Global Search for Education: Got Tech? - Australia". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2013.
“Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "feminine" timidity, submissiveness, obedience, silliness, and self-debasement are the very qualities best guaranteed to assure the defeat of even the most gifted aspirant.”

Source : "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 22: "Woman in the Aquarian Age", 1971.
“On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.”
“One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.”

Source : NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”
“Important moments like this are time to reflect. To remind us, sometimes, that it's not only important what you wear, but it's also important to be aware.”
“In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation...”

Source : "'101 Dalmatians': A Little Spotty" by Desson Howe, www.washingtonpost.com. November 27, 1996.
“Iman is to believe, even when an overpowering tide of evil surrounds you.”

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