#be

If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much. ↗

— Gary Ross

#exciting #find #force #forces #go

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die. ↗

— Jonathan Ross

#how #lose #many #people #remember

I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks. ↗

— R.J. Palacio

#bullying #r-j-palacio #wonder #beauty

The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted. ↗

— Marion Ross

#assume #being #hearing #impatient #just

Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them. ↗

— Marion Ross

#hearing #loss #make #number #person

The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts. ↗

— Rick Ross

#beforehand #best #better #cult #destructive

In a cult intervention information is presented about the group that the member is most often not aware of. ↗

— Rick Ross

#aware #cult #group #information #intervention

there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#beauty

You are a bird of ill-omen, thought Kelso. You circle the world and wherever you land there is famine and death and destruction: in an earlier and less credulous age, the local citizens would have gathered at the first sight of you and driven you off with stones - ↗

— Robert Harris

#robert-harris #age

Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it. ↗

— Alice S. Rossi

#challenging #conventional #dislike #disturbed #does