"The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real."

-- John Taylor Gatto

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“Thereâ€™s a level at which words are spirit and paper is skin. Thatâ€™s the fascination of archives. Thereâ€™s still a bodily trace.”
“I used humor to avoid being picked on as a kid. Or I would try and make my parents laugh, so I wouldn't get in trouble. But as a kid, I would watch Flip Wilson and I would memorize his whole routine, listen to Bill Cosby's records constantly, Steve Martin, Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball. I just drank that stuff up and loved it.”

Source : "Wendi McLendon-Covey on Her New Sitcom and Her Career in Comedy". Interview with Phoebe Robinson, www.glamour.com. September 24, 2013.
“I can't help but to write, I have a inner need for it. If I'm not in the middle of some literary project, I'm utterly lost, unhappy and distressed. As soon as I get started, I calm down.”
“Most people don't see Hamlet as an old bald guy.”
“A great influence in my life was the sanctified or Holiness churches...Everybody in there sang and they clapped and stomped heir feet and sang with their whole body... Their music was so strong and expressive, it used to bring tears to my eyes.”
“There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.”
“Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.”

Source : Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”
“We have not created any sort of democratic test for any nation.”

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