"When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school."

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Source : "Barack Obama and America’s Children: Can a Tragedy Refocus a Nation’s Priorities?" by Irwin Redlener, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2013.

Irwin Redlener

#Children Quotes #School Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?”
“Think about spam filters; if email didnt come from someone that someone you know knows, thats an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just dont. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph.”
“Promise to wear a cheerful appearance at all times and give every person you meet a smile.”
“HIV changed my life, but it doesn't keep me from living.”

Source : "New U.S. HIV Cases Rise, Spark Yawns" by Bryan Robinson, abcnews.go.com.
“We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.”
“The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to.”
“I have not long to live. I have lasted more than a man's average allotted span, and while I still am hale and hearty, I know full well the hand of time , while it may miss a man at one reaping, will get him at the next.”

Source : Clifford D. Simak (2015). “Time and Again”, p.84, Open Road Media
“The free market exists to promote prosperity and human life, and that is what it has accomplished, splendidly, with breathtaking brilliance. In the industrialized world, the average person today enjoys a standard of living superior to that of kings and emperors of the past. The whole world's population is capable of enjoying the same marvelous results, if it adopts economic freedom.”

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