"Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time."

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Source : Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.238, Basic Books

Diane Ravitch

#Decision Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Passive Quotes

“I love chilling in a cute sweatsuit and wedge sandals or sneakers.”
“I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology.”
“And you each gentle animal In confidence may bind, And make them follow at your call, If you are always kind.”

Source : Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.26
“I'm not a fan of action movies. I don't watch many action movies, I don't have a lot of references except for 70s action movies or cinema noir.”
“Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.”
“I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color.'”

Source : Thaddeus Stevens (1997). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 1: April 1865-August 1868”, p.524, University of Pittsburgh Pre
“I'd love to do music for films.”
“Money can be made later, but time is lost forever.”

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