"In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries,"

-- Janet Echelman

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“The best person able to appraise promise as a mathematician is a gifted teacher, and not a professional tester.”
“We think "reading the Bible in context" means thinking about the handful of verses before and after the verses we're looking at on the page. That isn't the case. While that's important, context is so much wider than a handful of verses.”
“Children are the bearers of life in its simplest and most joyous form. Children are color-blind and still free of all the complications, greed, and hatred that will slowly be instilled in them through life.”

Source : Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.129, Penguin
“We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.”
“A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient and meticulous adjustments and an intuition so instantaneous that, when formulated, it acquires the finality of something that could never have been otherwise. But it is also the rhythm of time that passes with no other aim than to let feelings and thoughts settle down, mature, and shed all impatience or ephemeral contingency.”
“There are so many heroes just walking around in everyday life. It blows me away.”

Source : "Charisma Carpenter Talks 'the Lying Game' Shockers And More". OK Interview, okmagazine.com. February 26, 2013.
“Our government should do everything it can to ensure the successful prosecution of those responsible for the murders of U.S. citizens abroad. It should provide resources as needed, and it should make it clear to the authorities in Belgrade that inaction does have repercussions on bilateral relations.”
“It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.”

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