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Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind. ↗

— Colin Powell

#ask #because #behind #children #giving

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out. ↗

— Colin Powell

#afghan #al-qaeda #back #come #control

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#book #cream #gets #gland #instead

I think we will have a boy baby and he will be born on the 20th of August. Everyone else has a girl baby and at times I don't believe I should mind having a little Phyllis Dawn but Dearest wants a boy and I do. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#baby #believe #born #boy #dawn

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#always #burlesque #comedy #dupe #fox

I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting. ↗

— William Powell

#dieting #effective #highly #i #more

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends. ↗

— Enoch Powell

#ends #journey #mean #means #my journey

I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit. ↗

— Enoch Powell

#diary #every #every day #i #i do

We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim. ↗

— Jane Powell

#attractive #being #being strong #ditch #idea

Communication works for those who work at it. ↗

— John Powell

#those #who #work #works