"Research does not support any part of Race to the Top"

-- Diane Ravitch

#Race Quotes #Support Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
“Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage of development of the science, and thus what appears to us as elegance of description really reflects the interconnectedness of Nature's laws at different levels.”
“Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.”

Source : James Holman (1840). “Travels in Madeira, Sierra Leone, Teneriffe, St. Jago, Cape Coast, Fernando Po, Princes Island, Etc. Etc”, p.10
“I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.”
“I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn't make it clear.”
“After I tasted success with erotic thrillers, a time came when I was being offered only films belonging to that genre. The industry loves repeating a success formula, and the audience had formed a certain image of mine in their minds.”
“Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.”

Source : Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.19, Faber & Faber
“I trust myself, and I trust Life to support and protect me.”

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