#test

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#condition #constitution #covenant #dreams #every

As I look back on the day I signed my professional contract in 1973, I've never gone to sleep wondering if I could pay the bills or take care of my family. That's what basketball has done for me. It's given me the greatest of thrills from high school to college to the Olympics to coaching to broadcasting. ↗

— Doug Collins

#basketball #bills #broadcasting #care #coaching

I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#because #greatest #i #mistakes #most

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#brightest #calamity #confusion #darkest #furnace

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#completely #consolation #covered #cried #enjoy

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#came #corner #ever #greatest #greatest man

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#growing #growing up #i #i remember #just

This framing accents the importance of building a tidier system, one that incorporates the array of existing child care centers, then pushes to make their classrooms more uniform, with a socialization agenda "aligned" with the curricular content that first or second graders are expected to know. Like the common school movement, uniform indicators of quality, centralized regulation, more highly credientialed teachers are to ensure that instruction--rather than creating engaging activities for children to explore--will be delivered in more uniform ways. And the state signals to parents that this is now the appropriate way to raise one's three- or four-year-old. Modern child rearing is equated with systems building in the eyes of universal pre-kindergarten advocates--and parents hear this discourse through upbeat articles in daily newspapers, public service annoucement, and from school authorities. ↗

— Bruce Fuller

#children #kindergarten #preschool #school-systems #standardized-tests

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#believe #best #brightest #degradation #generation

Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future. ↗

— Mark Foley

#against #american #american government #assuring #elderly