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It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest. ↗

— David Korten

#billion #interesting #more #note #people

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers. ↗

— David Korten

#enormous #global #global economy #instability #losers

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#ambition #become #freedom #i #labour

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#governor #gratify #nomination

I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#audience #big #evidence #i #i am

I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#because #bigger #different #every #find

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#enjoyment #fade #habit #lasts #only

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#big #big enough #enough #matter #pick

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#any #attracting #best-educated #exciting #factor

I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#automobile #because #come #debate #emphasize