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  1. [Excessive testing teaches students] that learning is a joyless succession of hoops through which they must jump, rather than a way of understanding and mastering the world. Every question has one right answer; the measure of a person is a number. Being insightful, or creative, or heaven forfend, counterintuitive counts for nothing.
    -- Anna Quindlen (Newsweek June 2005)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AnnaQuindlen #Education #StandardizedTesting

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  2. If a system becomes weak enough and the opposition divided enough, if the ruling order is corrupt enough and people are angry enough, extremists can suddenly step into the center, where no one expects them. And after that it can take decades to undo the damage.
    -- Kontra (@counternotions)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #Kontra #Authoritarianism #Corruption #Politics

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  3. In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.
    -- Nicholas Chamfort

    #Wisdom #Quotes #NicholasChamfort #History

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  4. There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
    -- Pierre Bayle

    #Wisdom #Quotes #PierreBayle #Invention

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  5. Perhaps nothing government does, or will not stop doing, should be surprising in a country in which a Kansas bank was fined because it did not have Braille instructions on the ATM machines in its drive-through banking lanes.
    -- George F. Will

    #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeFWill #Politics

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  6. Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed -- everything else is public relations.
    -- George Orwell

    #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeOrwell #Journalism

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  7. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
    -- Petronius Arbiter (circa 60 CE)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #PetroniusArbiter #Confusion #Progress #Reorganization

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  8. Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.
    -- Herman Melville

    #Wisdom #Quotes #HermanMelville #Disparity #Humanity #Poverty #Wealth

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  9. I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
    -- NYC Detective

    #Wisdom #Quotes #NYCDetective #FortuneTellers #Skepticism

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  10. Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
    -- William Strunk Jr.

    #Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamStrunkJr #Writing

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