"When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week."

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Tom Rath

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“Some days you're depressed, some days you're happy, some days you're broken hearted. People need music for therapy, to heal them or speak for them when they can't describe how they're feeling.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies”

Source : Joy Harjo (1990). “In Mad Love and War”, p.21, Wesleyan University Press
“I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.”
“The young are not afraid of telling the truth.”
“We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“There are always rebels and radicals, I suppose,' McCleethy allows. 'Those who live on the fringes of society. But what do they contribute to the society itself? They reap its rewards without experiencing its costs. No. I submit that loyal, hardworking citizens who push aside their own selfish desires for the good of the whole are the backbone of the world. What if we all decided to run off and live freely without thought or care for society's rules? Our civilization would crumble. There is a joy in duty and a security in knowing one's place...It is the only way.”
“The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.”

Source : Speech in New Orleans, 19 October 1969, in 'Frankly Speaking' (1970) ch. 3
“The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of society.”

Source : "Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: 'It's not possible to write a neutral story'". Interview With Amelia Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.

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