"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Education Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Women Quotes

“We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.”
“Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.”
“When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.”
“Either the men of Galilee were men of superlative wisdom, and extensive knowledge and experience, and of deeper skill in the arts of deception than any and all others, before them or after them, or they have truly stated astonishing things which they saw and heard.”

Source : Simon Greenleaf (1847). “An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice: With an Account of the Trial of Jesus”, p.47
“The United States has to have the capability to deal with more than one enemy at one time and be able to confront them and win.”
“I never try to get noticed. It just happens. I never try.”
“If we all make systematic mistakes in our decisions, then why not develop new strategies, tools, and methods to help us make better decisions and improve our overall well-being? That's exactly the meaning of free lunches- the idea that there are tools, methods, and policies that can help all of us make better decisions and as a consequence achieve what we desire-pg. 241”
“Some actors go, 'Bing!' and suddenly they're being paid huge sums. Me, I seem to get screwed every time.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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