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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they a

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse. – Doris Lessing

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I dont know much about creative writing programs. But theyre not telling the truth if they dont teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. – Doris Lessing

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You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I cant say I do like it very much. – Doris Lessing

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Women
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If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that theres no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream. – Jonathan Kozol

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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. – John F. Kennedy

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I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didnt have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society. – Charles Kuralt

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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. – Oscar Wilde

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You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do. – Norman Juster

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It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past – or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely. – Ted Kulongoski

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Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves. – Jawaharlal Nehru

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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasnt perhaps completely whole, that something was left out. – Chinua Achebe

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