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“It almost isn't sporting, is it?”

Source : "Obama in Thrall to CIA Killing Machine" by Toby Harnden, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 16, 2013.
“The persistence of housing discrimination and housing segregation makes it difficult at times to integrate schools. So what flows from that is disappointment and cynicism and the search for what's next. And it's really in the search for what's next after that that we come upon ideas like increasing standardized testing for kids and using those tests scores to hold teachers accountable.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.”
“President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.”
“Light, air, sound. In every space, it's how you embrace those things.”
“Given a full summer to practice basketball, and especially my jump shot, I know that I could play in the NBA and do well.”
“When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.”
“Sometimes I am a little unkind to all my many friends in education ... by saying that from the time it learns to talk every child makes a dreadful nuisance of itself by asking 'Why?'. To stop this nuisance society has invented a marvellous system called education which, for the majority of people, brings to an end their desire to ask that question. The few failures of this system are known as scientists.”

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