Quote by Anna Quindlen
The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But youd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools. – Anna Quindlen

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After all those years as a woman hearing not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough, almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, Im enough. – Anna Quindlen

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But its important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated. – Anna Quindlen

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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. – Anna Quindlen

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Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. – Jimmy Carter

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Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past. – Bob Dylan

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For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. Hes right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic. – Brian Mulroney

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The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. – James A. Baldwin

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I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. – Albert Einstein

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What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? – W. Clement Stone

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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs. – Wallace Stevens

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It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations. – Huston Smith

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