"It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars, have a horrendous performance record in later life."

-- John Taylor Gatto

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“Kissing Macaulay Culkin was like kissing a brother. It was really no big deal.”
“I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto.”
“No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.”

Source : Thomas De Quincey (1871). “The Works of Thomas De Quincey: Suspira de profundis. General index”, p.3
“Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.”
“Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals, as if he could do it better than themselves.”
“Donâ€™t stretch yourself too much with a mortgage. Buy within your means. Itâ€™s not worth the sleepless nights.”
“The hallmark of the artist is simplicity.”
“Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata of function and structure, materials and texture, lie the deepest and most compulsive layers of all.”

Source : Charles Correa (2010). “A Place in the Shade: The New Landscape & Other Essays”, p.22, Penguin Books India

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