#those

If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#any #benign #funds #grounded #morally

Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#been #competition #education #i #improve

The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#given #government #help #hidden #katrina

That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#basketball #concentrate #doing #games #great

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#composers #dance #ephemeral #kind #painters

From the moment this baby came into our home, those two dogs have never been more in love. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever witnessed. People keep saying, 'Oh, you're a single mom.' I'm like, 'Actually, I'm not. I've got two boys helping.' ↗

— Charlize Theron

#baby #beautiful #beautiful thing #been #came

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. ↗

— Thucydides

#before #bravest #clearest #danger #glory

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. ↗

— Thucydides

#despise #give #men #naturally #respect

But what shouldn't happen is, you shouldn't have the taxpayers from states that are managing their situations well paying for those states that are not. ↗

— John Thune

#managing #paying #situations #states #taxpayers

Today, there are more Americans working than ever before in the history of our Nation, and the average wage of those workers is higher than it has ever been in the history of our Nation. ↗

— Todd Tiahrt

#been #before #ever #higher #history