"Be glad you're fifty - andThat you got there while things were nice,In a world worth looking at twice.So here's wishing you many more years,But not all that many. Cheers!"

-- Kingsley Amis

#Cheer Quotes #Nice Quotes #Years Quotes

“I would not say that Harvard possesses any sort of absolute dominance. And I personally do not take the rankings of schools all that seriously. However, I think that Harvard's global visibility increased significantly in the 1930s and 1940s and that the new commitment to excellence at Harvard spread to other institutions.”
“The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.”
“Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.”
“Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. Itâ€™s the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.”

Source : "INTERVIEW: Glen Hirshberg, Author of MOTHERLESS CHILD". Interview with Kristin Centorcelli, www.sfsignal.com. June 2, 2014.
“Always desire to learn something useful”
“We think in terms of fate even if we don't believe in it. Even something as trivial as missing the bus - we think: Well, it might be good for something. We always have that thought, no matter how critical we try to be. The idea that everything is always total chance - we're not made for that.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Once upon a time . . .â€ â€œIn the beginning was . . .â€ Thatâ€™s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wivesâ€™ tale blues riff begins with â€œWoke up this morninâ€™. . . .”
“A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.”

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