"The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society."

-- Paul Wellstone

#Inspirational Quotes #Believe Quotes #Teaching Quotes

“Increasingly independent black economic, cultural and political power gave Blacks more freedom to do what came natural to them. Divorced from White influence and culture, they reverted quickly to their genotype - increasingly typical of black societies around the world. Males exhibited exaggerated sexual aggression and promiscuity that led to the dissolution of the Black nuclear family in America. Females reverted to the age-old African model of maternal provisioning of children.”
“No excuses. Just do the work.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 12, 2013
“My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I've made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.”

Source : "Colin Hanks, Tom Hanks Team Up On-Screen". The PARADE Magazine Interview, parade.com. March 20, 2009.
“Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.”
“[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.”
“God isn't a noun but a process...a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things.”
“When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when people who earn less than average have the deficiency , or the greater part of it, turned over to them in hand-outs and doles, the production of all must sharply decline; for the energetic and able who lose their incentive to produce more than the average, and the slothful and unskilled lose their incentive to improve their condition.”
“I might have to drink the blood of animals to stay alive, but I would never feast on one of my own kind, no matter what Mr.Crepsley said, or hows much my belly growled.”

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