The discipline, particularly in these urban schools for the poor, it's not controlled by the administration - they're controlled by the police. This is an expression of a racist logic that has now seeped directly into schools.
America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.
Democracy is not compatible with capitalism but is congruent with a version of democratic socialism in which the wealth, resources, and benefits of a social order are shared in an equitable and just manner.
Fools, their wisdom weak, are their own enemies as they go through life, doing evil that bears bitter fruit.
We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.
Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.
I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your strengths enables you to make use of them.
If a critic doesn't think I can act, it's because I'm not acting. That's me - and that's the way I act.
Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out.
Computers are heaven-sent when they work and hell-spawn when they don't. There's just not much middle ground when it comes to technology.
The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.
We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.
One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.
After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.
It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
Daniel: We need Kate, and we need Leo. And we need them now. Come on. [they go in and watch [link=tt0120338]]
Leo O'Bannion: You ain't got a license to kill bookies and today I ain't sellin' any. So take your flunky and dangle.
Leo Bloom: My blanket! My blue blanket! Give me my blue blanket!
Max Bialystock: Here's to failure Leo Bloom: ...To failure Drunk: Why, thank you! You're very kind!
Leo Bloom: Hysterical attacks have a way of severely depleting one's blood sugar. Max Bialystock: They certainly do... they certainly do!
