"people think they have to be good before they can act good. But ... it works just as well the other way 'round."

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Source : Cecil Dawkins (1995). “Rare Earth”, Fawcett Books

Cecil Dawkins

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Way Quotes

“Standardised tests cannot capture all, but on the other hand, students who are not capable of doing well on standardised tests are not well-equipped to thrive in today's world and so it's important for teachers to ensure that students gain the foundation necessary to meet the baseline educational standards these tests represent.”

Source : Source: www.economist.com
“After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.”
“How much Joy can a human mind encompass in one lifetime?”
“Walls aren't put in our life to stop us, they are there to test how much we really want somthing.”
“The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears is very much about America - it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and in fact, it happens to have more characters who are not Ethiopian than who are.”
“I'm the most unracist person around.”
“When every day seems the same, it is because we have stopped noticing the good things that appear in our lives.”
“Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my month's rent, which has been paid up ...”

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