"Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all -- by example."

-- John Ruskin

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“Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.”
“Aunt Mercy put down her tiles, one at a time. I-T-C-H-I-N. Aunt Grace leaned closer to the board, squinting. "Mercy Lynne, you're cheatin' again! What kinda word is that? Use it in a sentence." "I'm itchin' ta have some a that white cake." "That's not how you spell it." At least one of them could spell. Aunt Grace pulled one of the tiles off the board. "There's no T in itchin'." Or not.”
“Enlightenment is manâ€™s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment...”
“Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you.'”

Source : "Wayne Shorter On Jazz: 'How Do You Rehearse The Unknown?'". "All Things Considered" with Laura Sullivan, www.npr.org. February 2, 2013.
“I'm tight with Zack Ryder so I've had a Zack Ryder t-shirt for quite some time.”
“Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought.”
“One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.”
“I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.”

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