"The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows."

-- Ray Nagin

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“As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.”

Source : "Michael Gove's 'anti-Mr Men' speech in full". Speech in Brighton College by Michael Gove, politics.co.uk. May 09, 2013.
“I think the challenges should be familiar. They should have some relationship to the feelings.”

Source : Interview with David Wolinsky, film.avclub.com. June 5, 2008.
“Mumford and Sons and Adele are both incredible artists and are great for popular music. There's a lot of club music with heavy beats, so to have that Mumford record and hear banjos being used is so cool.”
“We must be unafraid to be utterly honest, to honor our gut feelings, and to say and do the unpopular when necessary. We have to give up our addiction to other people's opinions and surrender to the freedom of acting with strength and courage.”
“The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.”
“Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; character is what you have when you go away.”
“Donald Trump brought up the issue of the birth certificate and it's getting huge buzz around the country. Even Chris Matthews has called for, you know, the birth certificate to be released. Why can't they just release the birth certificate, you know, and just move on?”
“I believe our foreign assistance should be scrutinized, should be debated, and that we should strike the right balance, but in all cases the foreign assistance that we provide around the world should be used to further our national security interests.”

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