"Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them."

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Source : Guy Claxton (2001). “Wise Up”, p.120, A&C Black

Guy Claxton

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“We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again!”
“I love getting amazing jackets, because you can wear your pajamas underneath and everyone's like, 'Oh fabulous jacket', and I'm like, 'You should see what's underneath'.”
“If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top.”

Source : Roy Rogers, Dale Evans Rogers, Carlton Stowers (1979). “Happy trails: the story of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans”, Thomas Nelson Publishers
“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”
“Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime.”

Source : Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. May 15, 2012.
“A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied, the ironic, the suggestive; when it speaks, it wants you to lean forward a little to overhear; it wants you to understand things only years later.”

Source : J. D. McClatchy (2013). “Twenty Questions”, p.30, Columbia University Press
“I thought it was very humanitarian of Sean Penn and Madonna to marry each other. That way, they make only two people miserable instead of four.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“[T]he crucial question is not, as so many believe, whether property rights should be private or governmental, but rather whether the necessarily 'private' owners are legitimate owners or criminals. For ultimately, there is no entity called 'government'; there are only people forming themselves into groups called 'governments' and acting in a 'governmental' manner. All property is therefore always 'private'; the only and critical question is whether it should reside in the hands of criminals or of the proper and legitimate owners.”

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