"By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice."

-- Alan Kay

#Teacher Quotes #Couple Quotes #Lying Quotes

“Behind every good woman lies a trail of men.”

Source : Song: Behind Every Good Woman, Album: Down Here, 2000
“Start with the least amount of money possible. Some people say they need a certain amount to start, and I say you need a half of that or a third of that. That gives you the biggest return. If you put all your eggs in one basket, it's harder to adapt when you need to. Unless it's very capital-intensive, you don't need much money.”

Source : "Serial Entrepreneur Cameron Johnson Shares Success Secrets". Interview with Deborah Jeanne Sergeant, homebusinessmag.com. December 12, 2015.
“What's more interesting are the dynamics between people that involve hypocrisy or ignoring each other. That's what I want to write about. I like to make people uncomfortable because it's something we should be uncomfortable about.”
“You need to laugh more. Life is filled with too many problems, to not laugh every day.... We need to have a sense of humor going into this because it's too tough without it.”

Source : "Everyday Bravery". YouTube channel ysabellabravetalk (#3), www.youtube.com. March 25, 2007.
“Europe is often held up as a cautionary tale, a demonstration that if you try to make the economy less brutal, to take better care of your fellow citizens when they're down on their luck, you end up killing economic progress. But what European experience actually demonstrates is the opposite: social justice and progress can go hand in hand.”
“It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.”
“I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.”
“One of the things I recognized early on, doing whatever studies of black history I have, is that even though black folks were transported as slaves, into servitude, when they were carried out of Africa they left empty-handed, but they didn't leave empty-headed. They carried with them the culture they knew, the culture they had, and that culture reconstituted itself in all the places they went.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com

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