"There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children"

-- Amartya Sen

#Children Quotes #Literacy Quotes #Mortality Quotes

“When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.”
“Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.”
“I'm being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day? Tim Raines is the best? Mattingly is the best? Why not compare me to my peers?”
“All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.”
“I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.”
“If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of Popularity is shame; if thou be once up, beware; from fame to infamy is a beaten road.”
“And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never really noticed it before. Full of birdsong and summer perfumes, full of strange glimpses and intimations just out of the corner of my eye, of longings and sadness and undefined hopes.It has a name, this sweet disturbance. Its name is Lamorna.”
“If you've done a bit of journalism, everyone assumes you must be moving into PR. We're absolutely not becoming a PR agency and we're not turning into Brunswick. We will remain SRU, but we will be owned by the Brunswick Group. It's quite different.”

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