#usa

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#call #ears #education #every #hand

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#dance #how #i #learn #rather

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#denial #distinguish #general #impossible #mind

In the industry, you do need some ethics - if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the industry. I guess the bottomline is, if there are two versions, then the better one will click. ↗

— Ajay Devgan

#better #click #comes #does #ethics

There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#becoming #boring #danger #internet #just

Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#burned #daughters #deep #dna #fear

A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. ↗

— David Eagleman

#billions #brain #connections #galaxy #given

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#i #know #lot #man #results

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#back #biologists #capacity #collective #evolutionary

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system. ↗

— William Glasser

#hundred #improve #keep #long #nothing