Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
JAMES BALDWINAbove all else, align with customers. Win when they win. Win only when they win.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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[Black Hawk] has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men, who came year after year, to cheat them and take away their lands.
BLACK HAWK -
Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY -
And we use it to read album reviews and watch kitten videos… not to put those two things in the same light!
ALAN PALOMO -
People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
JORDAN PETERSON -
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
PAUL THE APOSTLE -
Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
D. H. LAWRENCE -
She’s got the look of a woman with lightening up her sleeve.
JONNY OX -
It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.
PLAUTUS -
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
O. HENRY -
In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you’ve heard the other side.
EURIPIDES -
You know…they say an elephant never forgets. What they don’t tell you is, you never forget an elephant.
BILL MURRAY -
An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.
BENJAMIN GRAHAM -
Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.
BOB SEGER -
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
HANNAH ARENDT -
I closed a lot of doors, that used to be wide open. Bolted them shut so you couldn’t break them down again.
MOOMER