"You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out."

-- Andrew Jackson

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“If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.”
“It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of mental growth. When these laws are known, the door of the future will in a measure be opened; determination of the child's present status will enable us to forecast what manner of adult he will become.”

Source : Lewis Madison Terman (1919). “The Intelligence of School Children: How Children Differ in Ability, the Use of Mental Tests in School Grading and the Proper Education of Exceptional Children”
“I find that the kinds of music Im drawn to are those that a lot of people take for granted.”

Source : Interview with Steven Soderbergh, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.
“To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.”
“My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.”
“Money ... it's both the most complicated and the most passionate relationship in our lives.”
“Audiences forget facts, but they remember stories. Once you get past the jargon, the corporate world is an endless source of fascinating stories.”
“I try to be as faithful as possible to the facts as I understand them, but any story is at least partly a product of the imagination. I can comprehend a lot by immersing myself in all of the information I've collected, but my imagination is what brings it to life, and the bridging of that gap - between the received history and the conceived fiction - is both the most difficult and most enjoyable part of the process for me.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org. July 11, 2006.

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