"The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter."

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Source : "An Atlas of Upward Mobility Shows Paths Out of Poverty" by David Leonhardt, Amanda Cox and Claire Cain Miller, www.nytimes.com. May 4, 2015.

Raj Chetty

#Years Quotes #Data Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“I have always thought that if you can give viewers the sense of being there a story can be very compelling.”
“It is better to sacrifice everything than to live in slavery!”
“I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.”
“The Italian economy is certainly the weakest of the big European countries.”
“As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.”
“Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.”
“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”

Source : David Suzuki, Ian Hanington (2012). “Everything Under the Sun: Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet”, p.160, Greystone Books
“I wanted so badly to be straight like my friends. But I couldn't change it any more than I could change having brown eyes. And I knew I would never fit into what kids thought was normal.”

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