"I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength."

-- Edwin Land

#Dream Quotes #Real Quotes #Greatness Quotes

“To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.”
“It is not however, adulthood itself, but parenthood that forms the glass shroud of memory. For there is an interesting quirk in the memory of women. At 30, women see their adolescence quite clearly. At 30 a woman's adolescence remains a facet fitting into her current self.... At 40, however, memories of adolescence are blurred. Women of this age look much more to their earlier childhood for memories of themselves and of their mothers. This links up to her typical parenting phase.”
“Compensatory education has been tried and it apparently has failed”

Source : Arthur Robert Jensen, Frank Miele (2002). “Intelligence, race, and genetics: conversations with Arthur R. Jensen”, Basic Books
“I go straight in very close to people and I do that because it's the only way you can get the picture. You go right up to them. Even now, I don't find it easy. I don't announce it. I pretend to be focusing elsewhere. If you take someone's photograph it is very difficult not to look at them just after. But it's the one thing that gives the game away. I don't try and hide what I'm doing - that would be folly.”
“Teaching is a strategic act of engagement.”
“Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.”

Source : William H. Gass (2014). “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country: And Other Stories”, p.143, New York Review of Books
“Ive spent over 25 years in the television industry, the direct response industry. I met a lot of people and certainly learned the power of commercials and their brand building potential.”
“It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.”

Source : Nathanael West (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust”, p.51, New Directions Publishing

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