"The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail."

-- Jonathan Kozol

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“Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being.”
“I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.”
“I want upon death to be buried, just like in the old days, where I decompose by the action of microorganisms, and I am dined upon by any form of creeping animal or root system that sees fit to do so.... I will have recycled back to the universe at least some of the energy that I have taken from it. And in so doing, at the conclusion of my scientific adventures, I will have come closer to the heavens than to Earth.”
“People who don't like Comic Sans don't know anything about design.”

Source : ""People who don't like Comic Sans don't know anything about design"". Interview with Anna Winston, www.dezeen.com. November 27, 2014.
“I decided to go to the night, myself, and started to go out to the fields, where I would encounter things that I cannot see very well, that I cannot detect very well, and to put myself in a position where I'm going to be suspected as a being entering a territory of other beings, and I'm also going to suspect them. I have to be very alert, and they are going to be very alert - this kind of position I felt was very much what is going on in the world for me.”
“Nothing gets me more excited and inspired than something new.”

Source : "Actor Annie Wersching: Losing her mom and the curative powers of a good night's sleep". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I honestly think vulnerability is a beautiful thing: it's tenderness, authenticity, and risk-taking. It means you're living a life where the stakes are high and you are continuing to push your own boundaries and learn new things. It keeps you flexible and young.”

Source : "Jaime Murray: Taking Care of Heart, Mind, and Body". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line.”

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