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Quote by Johann Lamont
Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me

Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me – drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality. – Johann Lamont

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Ive got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks its what children bring into school with them. – Johann Lamont

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Education
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Ive taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything. – Johann Lamont

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Christmas
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In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. – Thomas Malthus

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When equality is the aim, mediocrity is the result; when excellence is the aim, equality finds its true place. – Dr. Idel Dreimer, www.lumpenbangenpiano.com

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It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality. – Zachary Quinto

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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold…. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes a war betwixt princes. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

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Governments view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. – Ronald Reagan

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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. – Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays

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