"Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live in one today."

-- Alfie Kohn

#Growing Up Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Today Quotes

“I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.”

Source : "Zen and the Art of Systems Analysis: Meditations on Computer Systems Development". Book by Patrick McDermott, 2002.
“Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.”
“And just so you know for the future, I like my double-chocolate chip cookies warm and soft in the middle...and without magnets glued to them." "Me, too. When you decide to bake me some, let me know.”
“Never attack a problem without also presenting a solution.”
“One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it.”

Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. October 16, 2014.
“Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldnâ€™t have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldnâ€™t be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a libraryâ€™s peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of lightâ€¦”

Source : FaceBook post by Karen Russell from Dec 02, 2012
“I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it?”
“Great people do things before theyâ€™re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. And by doing it, theyâ€™re proven right.”

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