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“The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.”
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“Creativity is good and whatever. But if the children don't know how to read, I don't care how creative you are. You're not doing your job.”
Source : "'You’re Either With Us or You’re With the Status Quo': Privatization Supporters Push Obama to Pick Their Kind of Education Secretary" by Dan Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 6, 2009.
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“Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world”
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“It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.”
Source : Peter Elbow (1998). “Writing without Teachers”, p.5, Oxford University Press
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“Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global.”
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“Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.”
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“I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.”
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“Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get destiny to squeeze you in.”
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“Most people think visual information is more important than aural information - like, what's this big deal about sound? And why should I bother to listen, rather than look? And here are the facts: there are blind species, in the backs of the caves, the bottoms of the oceans. It's not essential on planet Earth to be able to see, to be a species. But there are no deaf animal species. You have to be able to hear, or you won't get the information you need in order to survive.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.”