"A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement."

-- Dan Gelber

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“It is to the dead that the life comes; it is to the unloveable that the love comes; it is to the lost that the salvation comes.”

Source : Horatius Bonar (1863). “Family Sermons”, p.27
“When I worked at The Independent newspaper, I had colleagues who would laugh and say that whenever they picked up the phone to my dad and heard his accent, they thought they were about to hear a five-minute warning to get out the building. People in Britain have always thought it acceptable to make racist remarks about the Irish. The prejudice underlying that supposed joke was everywhere.”
“Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is best in a nation's character: a commitment to principle, a willingness to sacrifice, a devotion to the community by the choice of the individual. But among its toxic fruits are intolerance, belligerence and blind obedience, perhaps because it blooms most luxuriantly during times of war.”
“The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve.”
“Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.”
“Trust is the foundation of real teamwork (there is nothing touchy-feely about this).”
“One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!”
“But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.”

Source : "An In-Depth Conversation With the Cast of ‘Pretty Little Liars’". Interview with Natasha Vargas-Cooper, bullettmedia.com. March 12, 2012.

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