"The school system is constructed to praise you if you get high grades. And if you get straight A's, you're the one that everyone puts forward, and they prognosticate that the straight-A person is the one most likely to succeed, because that's the way the school system is constructed and conceived."

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

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“It doesn't make sense to change who you are just to hang out with people you think are cool. You know, you just have to be yourself.”
“But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.”
“Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.”
“When I was eight years old to be a spaceman was the most exciting thing I could imagine.”
“I am not an attractive man. These clothes are the only thing holding me together; when I'm nude, my body shoots off in all directions. I'm like a starfish.”

Source : "Five Minutes With Jeremy Hotz". Interview with Rick Chandler, deadspin.com. May 2, 2007.
“We are all vulnerable, and we will all, at some point in our lives... fall. We will all fall. We must carry this in our hearts... that what we have is special. That it can be taken from us, and when it is taken from us, we will be tested. We will be tested to our very souls. We will now all be tested. It is these times, it is this pain, that allows us to look inside ourselves.”

Source : "Fictional character: Eric Taylor". "Friday Night Lights" (Pilot), www.imdb.com. 2006.
“Turn off your mind, and focus on what you've got to do - task at hand.”
“There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return.”

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