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I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc. ↗

— Howard Gardner

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Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too. ↗

— Howard Gardner

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The writer studies literature, not the world. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement. ↗

— Howard Gardner

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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

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One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy. ↗

— John Gardner

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The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

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Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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