"Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country."

-- Zephyr Teachout

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“If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed.”

Source : Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“What you envision in your mind, how you see yourself, and how you envision the world around you is of great importance because those things become your focus.”
“Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve”

Source : Grenville Kleiser (1949). “Make Your Life Worth Living”
“Your best work is your expression of yourself.”
“We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side.”
“The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.”
“Every government, every country, has the right to exercise force when necessary.”

Source : Source: dhakadigest.net
“How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably more perfect than at any previous time, one which does not break with the past, while it brings a sense of comely order, and a radiant beauty, to cottage and manor alike.”

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