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Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#be true #been #contempt #deal #demoralized

I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me. ↗

— Alison Krauss

#come #crazy #either #get #home

If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

#could #does #experiencing #got #how

As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad. ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#cartoons #found #how #i #industry

Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive. ↗

— Brandon Thomas

#lifestyle #made #me #much #music

I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#become #big #brain #collective #communication

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#education #equals #exciting #field #fighting

This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls! ↗

— Emma Thompson

#bits #cut #daughter #dolls #felt

I go to the airport and I've had everything taken away from me because of the terrorists. People haven't realized yet, though, that we are at war. ↗

— Victoria Toensing

#away #because #everything #go #had

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#amazed #facility #follow #i #i am