"To judge by what my children are learning in school, you'd think American history was 75 percent slavery and 25 percent everything else (and that 25 percent includes a large dollop of imperialism, racism, sexism and homophobia, leaving little time for Lincoln, Edison, Clay, Holmes, Alcott, Dickinson, Adams, Longfellow or Fulton)."

-- Mona Charen

#Children Quotes #School Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I learned in my Ph.D. the discipline I needed to be successful. Most boxers are not that disciplined. They have talent, but the self-organization - the ability to schedule yourself and your priorities - is lacking. My studies were about the control of training on both the psychological and the physical side.”
“Black folks in America are telling one party, 'We don't give a damn about you.' They're telling the other party, 'You've got our vote.' Therefore, you have labeled yourself 'disenfranchised' because one party knows they've got you under their thumb. The other party knows they'll never get you and nobody comes to address your interest,”

Source : "ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith: For One Election, Every Black Person Should Vote Republican". www.breitbart.com. March 18, 2015.
“I've got a really good family; I've got great friends around me.”
“There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.”
“I want to buy Yoogeun a fire extinguisher.”
“As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.”
“To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine from case to case what is good, or valuable, or what ought to be done, or what I endorse or oppose. In other words, it is the horizon within which I am capable of taking a stand.”

Source : Charles Taylor (1992). “Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity”, p.27, Cambridge University Press
“Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.”

Source : Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler (2014). “Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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