#ran

France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#insist #institutions #need #responsive #updated

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life. ↗

— Giorgio de Chirico

#aspect #aspects #certain #confer #dream

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men. ↗

— Giorgio de Chirico

#butterflies #catches #common #distraction #fatal

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it. ↗

— John Ciardi

#entrance #escape #into #should #world

Thou strange piece of wild nature! ↗

— Colley Cibber

#piece #strange #thou #wild

I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#convince #did #difficult #finally #get

I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living. ↗

— Guy Clark

#building #couple #grandkids #guitars #i

Where the law ends tyranny begins. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#ends #law #tyranny #where

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men. ↗

— Albert Claude

#common #courage #equilibrium #ethics #faith

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#asian #asian countries #countries #european #even