We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

Alexander Hamilton, from No. 8,

Never worry about thingsThat you are unable to change.Change your own wayOf looking at truth,

Sri Chinmoy

I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.

Tony Kushner

Teach us to give and not count the cost.

St. Ignatius Loyola

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Eric Butterworth

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

Jonathan Davis

The music I love to sing would have to be gospel - it just uplifts me, it takes me to a really good place.

Jacob Lusk

The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.

Michelle Bachelet

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

George Bernard Shaw

The teachers complain that the students today are all lazy, ignorant, and stupid. But the truth is that you're smarter than they are. You're not even old enough to drive and you already know that none of this matters.

Charles Benoit

A flower falls, even though we love it and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

Dogen

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

Edward Hoagland