"Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works."

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Source : "Advancing Education: A Governor’s Lesson" by Michael F. Easley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2009.

Mike Easley

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“Art is something that everyone should be able to have access to.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Some people are great, and they approach each work with honesty, and that's wonderful. But when people have built up a sort of resentment or animosity for reasons that are hard to put your finger on, they read in bad faith.”
“Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick”

Source : David Miliband's Speech at TUC Congress, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2006.
“All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and set out to write something story-led.”
“I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.”
“In 1915 Sophie Tauber and I carried out our first works in the simplest forms, using painting, embroidery and pasted paper (without using oil colors to avoid any reference with usual painting). These were probably the first manifestations of their kind, pictures that were their own reality, without meaning or cerebral intention. We rejected everything in the nature of a copy or a description, in order to give free flow to what was elemental and spontaneous.”
“Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 9, 2014
“When I was about 13 or 14. I was in a Kingston Trio type group. We evolved into the New Breed. Our first song on the radio was "Green Eyed Woman," not to be confused with "Green Eyed Lady".”

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