"We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments."

-- Adlai E. Stevenson

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“You people are not prepared. You are well educated and you look cute, but that's not going to cut it.”
“Two brains are better than one. You've twice the brain capacity and you have two sets of experiences and genes to bring to any challenge.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“This will arguably be the third great revolution of America, if we can prove that we literally can live without having a dominant European culture.”
“We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.”
“Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene its not one-on-one, its a one-on-12. Its very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.”
“Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. Â… We are so busy making things happen that we have little time left to think about the value of what is happening. We urgently need people who concentrate on the meaning of life rather than simply the speed.”
“There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. Thats almost as many as died in June, 1944. Right to the very end, it was absolutely brutal.”

Source : "Rick Atkinson talks 'The Guns at Last Light'". Interview with John Barron, www.chicagotribune.com. May 10, 2013.
“You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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