"Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform."

-- Carl Bereiter

#Education Quotes #Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes

“A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve, by where she is flat or straight or round. She is measured by 36-24-36 and inches and ages and numbers, by all the outside things that donâ€™t ever add up to who she is on the inside. And so if a woman is to be measured, let her be measured by the things she can control, by who she is and who she is trying to become. Because as every woman knows, measurements are only statistics... and STATISTICS LIE.”
“Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.”
“There is something in the spirit of song...that fires the soul in a way that it can't otherwise be touched or fired.”
“Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.”

Source : James Weldon Johnson (2011). “The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson”, p.174, Modern Library
“Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same.”
“As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.”
“Some people haven't got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.”
“Emily: YOU CAN'T SPEAK AND TYPE AT THE SAME TIME, BINDY! Bindy: Watch me.”

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