"Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer."

-- Leah Hager Cohen

#Black Quotes #Tests Quotes #Pressure Quotes

“I think it's very difficult in the first go-round for congressional people and political people to understand the linkages that exist between us and the rest of the world. That we're not insular anymore.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“The greatest justice in life is to be who one is.”
“I did worry about being in a science-fiction show. The bits that I was reading, I felt were funny, and I felt the man was childish, so I really did ask initially, "Is this for kids?" And the thing that came back immediately was like, "Hey, take a look at this whole thing again. This is definitely not for children. How can you think that?"”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I've learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather than drained.”
“I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.”
“Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.”
“We are entirely for the idea that Europe shall be free from nuclear weapons, from medium-range weapons as well as tactical weapons. That would be a real zero option.”

Source : "Nuclear War: The Search for Solutions". Book by Leonard V. Johnson, 1985.
“I love you Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.”

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