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“When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.”
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“Everyone who owns a home recognizes the need for fire insurance. We hope and pray that there will never be a fire. Nevertheless, we pay for insurance to cover such a catastrophe, should it occur. We ought to do the same with reference to family welfare.”
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“The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
Source : William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”
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“I never for a moment believed they would perform at 10 o'clock in the morning. It's hard enough getting them to perform at 8 at night.”
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“I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.”
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“I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!”
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“I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.”
Source : "Escape From the '80s" by Allison Glock, GQ, December, 1997.
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“We are living at an important and fruitful moment now, for it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood given by the popular culture are worn out; a man can no longer depend on them. By the time a man is thirty-five he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.”
Source : Robert Bly (2015). “Iron John: A Book about Men”, p.7, Da Capo Press