"School just speeds things up... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count."

-- Louis Sachar

#School Quotes #Sadness Quotes #Years Quotes

“Vision is the ability to see Godâ€™s presence, to perceive Godâ€™s power, to focus on Godâ€™s plan in spite of the obstacles.”

Source : Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People”, p.143, Thomas Nelson Inc
“The achievement of Tahrir Square wasnâ€™t just its grand political movement but the tiny personal battles fought and won against the frictions wearing down Egyptian society: between religions, classes, sexes, and generations.”

Source : Shereen El Feki (2013). “Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World”, p.4, Random House
“The past has been given to us. The future must be built, as others have built our past.”

Source : Gladys Hasty Carroll (1957). “Sing Out the Glory”
“What a tremendous act of generosity on the part of the donors who made this possible and what a tremendous opportunity for all these children in Kalamazoo public schools who can now go to college and chase their dreams.”
“A terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world - it may be in the United States of America - that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event.”

Source : "General Tommy Franks". Interview by Marvin R. Shanken, www.cigaraficionado.com. December 2003.
“So, if people didnâ€™t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea â€“ or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we donâ€™t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe FernÃ¡ndez-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.”
“We [ with Andy Samberg] knew each other for the last few years, our names are similar, our looks are a little bit similar, and our backgrounds are similar. The Judaism is quite similar.”
“Those who feel they are clean, go ahead and throw the first rock. If you're clean, if you have not done anything wrong or been accused of anything wrong, go ahead and start the show.”

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