"When you succeed at keeping almost everyone in school, you must figure out ways to educate everyone you keep in school."

-- Diane Ravitch

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“Reality is a harsh mistress. She demands our honesty. She demands our work. She demands that we give up comforts, that we let ourselves feel pain, that we accept how small we are and how little control we have over our lives. And she demands that we make her our top priority. But she is more beautiful, and more powerful, and more surprising, and more fascinating, and more endlessly rewarding, than anything we could ever make up about her.”
“By hook or by crook, we're going to make sure that when I leave this office, that the country is more prosperous, more people have opportunity, kids have a better education, we're more competitive, climate change is being taken more seriously than it was.Those are going to be the measures by which I look back and say whether I've been successful as president.”
“Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.”
“Europe is a state with several provinces”
“What has happened is that we have seen a shift in the past twenty years in the very concept of hacking. So hacking twenty years ago was a neutral, positive concept. Somebody who was a hacker was someone with advanced computer skills, which could expose vulnerabilities and could explain why systems worked well or worked badly and they were generally regarded as an asset. Over the past twenty years, a combination of media and law enforcement has changed the perception of the concept so that it has almost always, if not invariably, a pejorative sense attached.”

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“Where is the stretch? Where is the perfect fit? Where does it make sense? You have to be a Baryshnikov.”
“A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.”
“It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth, the more wealth we shall receive.”

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