"Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that they don't do something else!"

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Daniel Quinn

#Education Quotes #School Quotes #Prison Quotes

“Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not.”
“Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.”
“Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.”
“I struggle with how humankind ended up this way. We made ourselves slaves to money, and we all have to work and be a part of this thing when time is always ticking. And before we know it, a decade has gone by, and did I really get to do everything I wanted to do or say everything I wanted to say?”
“Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.”
“My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments.”
“Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity.”

Source : "Ask the Author Live: Rebecca Mead". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2010.
“We want to be making clear that if [Donald Trump] tries to deliver on his word, that we will be there to say no.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com

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