"It will help at every state along the road to learning. For the pre-school years we will help needy children become aware of the excitement of learning."

-- Lyndon B. Johnson

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“In college, unable to be "special" - or in demand - as a girl, I made myself useful, even essential, in my microcosm - as a writer and photographer for the band, particularly for the band director. My "specialness" was to produce something of value, not to look like something (with that different kind of "value"), so I was still fundamentally invisible, but had a significant purpose.”

Source : "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.
“I have always hated war and am by nature and philosophy a pacifist, but it is the English who are forcing war on us, and the first principle of war is to kill the enemy.”
“I worry about financial security, and the older I get the more I worry about it.”

Source : "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.
“I nod like I'm not at all unnerved by this new cold side to him. Not cruel like his father. Not warm like the husband who sought me out on quiet nights. Something in between. This Linden has never woven his fingers through mine, never chosen me from a line of weary Gathered girls, never said he loved me in a myriad of coloured lights. We are nothing to each other.”
“Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.”

Source : Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland, Susanna Pinney (1998). “I'll stand by you: selected letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland : with narrative by Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Random House (UK)
“If you plan your work, you will not find yourself standing on the corner wondering where to go next.”
“The 2000s were marked by terrorism and a bipartisan desire to fight it.”
“No extraordinary result ever came from mediocre effort.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Nov 12, 2009

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