"Education brings sustainability to all the development goals, and literacy is the foundation of all learning. It provides individuals with the skills to understand the world and shape it, to participate in democratic processes and have a voice, and also to strengthen their cultural identity."

-- Irina Bokova

#Skills Quotes #Voice Quotes #Goal Quotes

“Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.”
“People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.”
“I wouldn't say that I was an actress. I tried to be an actress. I really didn't have the gift.”
“I don't have feathers, but I feel like a bird sometimes.”

Source : "'Jetman' lives the dream of flying". www.cnn.com. December 4, 2011.
“I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a dancer shaking my ***** to boogaloo inside my head, and perhaps reach only readers who like to use books to shake their asses, than to be or write for the man cloistered in a closet somewhere reading Aeschylus while this stupefying world careens crazily past his waxy windows toward its last raving sooty feedback pirouette.”
“I know perfectly well that only in happy instants am I lucky enough to lose myself in my work. The painter-poet feels that his true immutable essence comes from that invisible realm that offers him an image of reality....I feel that I do not exist in time, but that time exists in me. I can also realize that it is not given to me to solve the mystery of art in an absolute fashion. Nonetheless, I am almost brought to believe that I am about to get my hands on the divine.”
“It depends on the state itself to retain or abolish the principle of representation, because it depends on itself whether it will continue a member of the Union. To deny this right would be inconsistent with the principle on which all our political systems are founded, which is, that the people have in all cases, a right to determine how they will be governed. This right must be considered as an ingredient in the original composition of the general government, which, though not expressed, was mutually understood. . .”

Source : William Rawle (1829). “A view of the Constitution of the United States of America”, p.296
“God made solids, but surfaces were the work of the devil.”

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