American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.

Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each idea or image has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of associations and is connected to numerous other points in the mental network.

Peter Russell

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.

Brett Favre

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier theywouldn't have to go so fast.

Steven Wright

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

Thomas Mcguane

Error, indeed, is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced

Irenaeus of Lyons

The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further.

Sir Heneage Ogilvie

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

Thomas Jefferson

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

Friedrich von Schiller

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not stakes. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. Its obligation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency. Even voting FOR THE RIGHT is DOING nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail.

Henry David Thoreau

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Malcolm X

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Les Brown