#sit

It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs. ↗

— John Gardner

#could #five #found #high #high school

I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just finding any way that I could to be involved in any kind of production. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#any #bad #could #did #elder

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#awakes #bitter #consciousness #during #prosperity

They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life. ↗

— Daryl Gates

#authority #certain #circumstances #freedom #freedom from

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#binary #black #creates #enormous #example

Fortunately, in President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to bridge the great reparations divide. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american #bridge #child #divide #finally

When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today. ↗

— Sunil Gavaskar

#cricket #down #during #focus #how

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers. ↗

— Gordon Gee

#duty #fabric #produce #universe #university

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#bias #conscious #feminism #feminist #i

I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#i #i think #more #moving #point