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“The share of wealth held by the minority is much greater than the share held by the majority. We have to draw our own conclusions from that and it has to change.”
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“I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting.”
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“That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.”
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“I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.”
Source : "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 16, 2013.
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“Quite simply, my diet has and will always be everything in moderation. People look at Olympic athletes and think they must cut out all those things everyone else indulges in, and speaking for myself, I never did.”
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“Learning is never aversive - usually we are not aware of it at all. It is failure to learn that is frustrating and boring, and so is having to attend to nonsensical activities.”
Source : Frank Smith (1986). “Insult to Intelligence: The Bureaucratic Invasion of Our Classrooms”, Heinemann Educational Books
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“The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast, but never sinks.”
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“impossible is not a word”
Source : Obert Skye, Ben Sowards (2008). “The Eyes of the Want”, p.189, Simon and Schuster