#second

A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#economic #education #secondary education #success #ticket

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#cause #critic #demonstrate #demonstrating #every

What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#beginning #century #common #end #era

Those of us who believe in God and those of us who have dedicated our lives to helping others in the name of God don't want to take a second seat to anyone who is suggesting that one word out of the platform means that the Democrats across America are godless. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#america #anyone #believe #dedicated #democrats

Of course, I'm not often the top dog, but sometimes it's better not to be top dog, because you last longer. If a movie or play flops, you always blame the lead. They say, 'He couldn't carry it.' They always blame him. But they rarely blame the second or third banana. ↗

— Charles Durning

#banana #because #better #blame #carry

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#during #encountered #home #households #i

I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts. ↗

— Judy Blume

#always #brain #down #draft #drafts

What happened to the Bush Administration regarding terrorism is that they regarded it as a secondary issue, and associated with Clinton. One of those Clinton issues. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#associated #bush #bush administration #clinton #happened

I said it's impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don't have any incentives for people to actually come up front and register, and make themselves available, and secondly you have no means of tracking them. ↗

— David Blunkett

#amnesty #any #available #because #cards

I'm about to do my second Bikram yoga class in Anchorage, Alaska. It's the only way to stay warm. I've got to get into shape. I've been eating nothing but fish and chips. ↗

— Emily Blunt

#alaska #been #chips #class #eating