"International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere"

-- Koichiro Matsuura

#Educational Quotes #Community Quotes #Literacy Quotes

“We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much more intelligent than we.”
“Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.”
“I refuse to accept that Western civilization is like some hopeless old version of Microsoft DOS, doomed to freeze, then crash. I still cling to the hope that the United States is the Mac to Europe's PC, and that if one part of the West can successfully update and reboot itself, it's America.”
“Journalism is a Darwinian process.”
“The new one actually reads, but only to pass judgment. This is the way kids learn today. Someone told them how you feel is more important than what you know, and so they think accusations are ideas. This is political correction run amok.”

Source : Allegra Goodman (2011). “The Cookbook Collector”, p.24, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Interviews don't go to the core of my life,”
“But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the â€˜destinyâ€™ my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it.”
“The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization.”

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