#element

Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#drop #elementary #elementary school #every #five

I honestly believe that there's an element in this country, in our politics, that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican party, and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America. ↗

— Herman Cain

#becoming #believe #businessman #country #does

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#elements #great #gun #modern #modern civilization

Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!' ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#band #came #elementary #elementary school #fantastic

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#advice #being #elements #gives #good

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#aesthetic #besides #comes #elements #fall

The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#element #important #most #must #sell

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction. ↗

— John Dewey

#complex #defined #distinction #element #meant

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#comes #down #elements #going #i

It's hard to say goodbye to the streets. It's all how you do it. You can pass by and say, 'What's happening?' and keep it moving, but it's a certain element that'll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that's the separation of it all. ↗

— Snoop Dogg

#because #certain #element #get #goodbye