"To me, this goes beyond disappointing. It shows that we are failing to gain ground on the very conditions we need to reverse to improve our graduation rates and produce more students who are ready for college and the workforce."

-- Bob Wise

#College Quotes #Needs Quotes #Gains Quotes

“It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.”

Source : Arthur Eddington (2012). “The Philosophy of Physical Science: Tarner Lectures (1938)”, p.179, Cambridge University Press
“I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.”
“Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.”

Source : Vartan Gregorian (2008). “The Road to Home: My Life and Times”, p.284, Simon and Schuster
“POWER: The ability to make our fellow humans squirm, sweat and stammer on command. Often regarded as an aphrodisiac; actually a potent laxative that, whenever ingested by people in high places, causes everyone below to run for cover.”
“I met the guys at HeavyRoc through the drummer in St. Lucia, Nick Brown. He is Ben from The Knocks' cousin, and at the time we'd been doing some work together, but everything was still very much in the unsure developmental phase (even though I'd been in it for a year and a half). I told him that if he was going to play the music for anyone that he shouldn't say anything about it and should just play it and see if anyone says anything, and he did it one day at their studio and they loved it and got it touch.”
“Change is REFINEMENT. Change is GROWTH. Change is MOVEMENT. Change is OPPORTUNITY.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 16, 2016
“Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate”
“What would you do if you could fly?" Mrs. V asks as she glances from the bird to me. "Is that on the quiz?" I ask, grinning as I type. "I think we've studied just about everything else." Mrs. V chuckles. "I'd be scared to let go," I type. "Afraid you'd fall?" she asks. "No. Afraid it would feel so good, I'd just fly away.”

Source : Sharon M. Draper (2012). “Out of My Mind”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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