"I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people."

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Source : "Clegg Announces Child Poverty and Social Mobility Commission" by Allegra Stratton and Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. April 05, 2011.

Harriet Harman

#Educational Quotes #People Quotes #Betrayed Quotes

“How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth?”

Source : Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.143, Penguin
“Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.”
“Arriane sized her up, tapping one finger against her lips. "Perfect," she said, stepping forward to loop her arm through Luce's. "I was just thinking I could really use a new slave.”
“My first gig was in Philadelphia and I played the drums for my older brothers. That same night, I also played drums for Martha and the Vandellas. Ah, the fond memories of being 14.”
“Time lost is time lost. Itâ€™s gone forever. Some people tell themselves that they will work twice as hard tomorrow to make up for what they did not do today. People should always do their best. If they work twice as hard tomorrow, then they should have also worked twice as hard today. That would have been their best.”
“The cry of equality pulls everyone down.”
“What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.”
“I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there.”

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