#tie

In my parents' day and age, it used to be the person who fell short. Now it's the discipline. Reading the classics is too difficult, therefore it's the classics that are to blame. Today the student asserts his incapacity as a privilege. I can't learn it, so there is something wrong with it. And there is something especially wrong with the bad teacher who wants to teach it. There are no more criteria, Mr. Zuckerman, only opinions. ↗

— Philip Roth

#education #humanities #age

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century. ↗

— Robert A. Dahl

#athens #century #democracies #just #later

Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. Say no anyway, because it could lead you to greater opportunities. ↗

— Sam Dash

#because #could #difficult #fired #getting

I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities. ↗

— Angela Davis

#awareness #certain #i #i think #made

It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not. ↗

— John Francis Davis

#believe #better #does #good #good qualities

I don't even like parties. ↗

— Doris Day

#i #like #parties

Four personalities are bound to clash. ↗

— John Deacon

#clash #four #personalities

Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families. ↗

— Nathan Deal

#bone #bone marrow #donor #every #families

In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly. ↗

— Jack Dee

#constantly #disturbing #drawn #feet #found

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt. ↗

— Bill Delahunt

#brick #burden #businesses #cannot #communities