#position

It's strange, but once you learn to fight, you seem to attract enemies...Sooner or later, those who master the art of combat must end up fighting. ↗

— Nahoko Uehashi

#fighting-battles #art

...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence or lack of desire to achieve is about as useful as a Betamax video cassette player, and it's time for those folks to be retired, be they teachers, administrators, or community leaders, so the rest of us can try to do some real work in the service of equal access for black students and all students. (15) ↗

— Adam J. Banks

#black #composition #digitalization #dj #education

You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's his favorite composition? And I say, I haven't written it yet. Because, you know, there are different songs for different occasions. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#ask #because #composition #different #duke

For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#company #get #i #key #people

To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#cowardly #go #man #mean #opposition

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right. ↗

— Fay Wray

#cabinet #i #i think #position #right

I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more deaths after the war than during the war. ↗

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

#almost #been #bush #clear #deaths

Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart. ↗

— John Green

#decomposition #entropy #fall-apart #science #together