"In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education."

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Source : Earl Warren (1959). “The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren”

Earl Warren

#Education Quotes #Children Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre of so many young lives. No matter how brutal the crime, you will always get glorification of its heroism and tradition from the eunuchs of bourgeois culture.”
“You have to be willing to get back on that horse and try it again if the mood strikes. That was one of the great pieces of wisdom that I got early on in my career in terms of being blocked. If you get to a creative roadblock, you can sit there and rack your brain.”
“The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct”
“My grandpa could go days, weeks, even months without a drink but if he took that first drink, he couldn't stop. Once, when I was twelve, my mom and I were driving and we saw my grandpa staggering drunk down the street. I asked if we should stop and help him. My mom sadly shook her head and kept driving.”
“Coaching is like flying an airplane, there is going to be a lot of turbulence, but your job is to land the plane safely.”
“Make deals with people, not paper.”
“I have to move on now as there is no point to dwell on the past. I have a few days to refocus and get ready for the 200 meters on Friday. After this I have the 4Ã—100-meter and a few other races before the end of the season.”
“I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actor, kidding ourselves on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between those two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.”

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