#why

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#child #count #distraction #gains #last

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#ask #dream #i #i dream #look

The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude? ↗

— Ken Kesey

#check #christian #consciousness #dude #falls

We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator? ↗

— Tom Ford

#designer #fashion #fashion designer #governor #had

Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it. ↗

— Callie Khouri

#chick #clear #flick #great #i

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#artist #did #does #how #know

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#conditional love #defeated #evil #final #final word

I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#biodiversity #book #conserving #how #i

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#book #day #ear #finished #five

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#country #decide #due #go #i