"I'd rather we were rebuilding Philadelphia, as opposed to Kabul...There are American cities with serious infrastructure problems and we're not addressing them."

-- Mick Cornett

#Cities Quotes #Philadelphia Quotes #Kabul Quotes

“What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. If you're interested in the cake, you get rather annoyed with people saying what species the real plum was.”
“We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Unless you've ever been a law enforcement officer or a prosecutor handling a difficult homicide case, you cannot know what it's like to launch the type of investigation and come to the right conclusion.”
“The word â€˜sinâ€™ is derived from the Indo-European root â€˜es-,â€™ meaning â€˜to be.â€™ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, â€˜to beâ€™ in the fullest sense is â€˜to sin'.”
“Well, I don't like to make outlandish statements. Not all the time. But Wimbledon would have beaten them 10-0.”
“In many ways, the ability to read is the great divide that separates the very young from everyone else. Once we've joined the conspiracy of the literate, once we've crossed over to the land of the reading, everything changes.”
“There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.”

Source : Neil Postman (2009). “Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World”, p.71, Delta
“There is much to be said for having an experienced international jurist who is entirely unconnected with the allied invaders, on the tribunal.”

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