Instead of focusing on their individual agendas, collaborative partnerships establish common goals. In order to address problems that lie beyond any single agency's exclusive purview, but which concern them all, partners agree to pool resources, jointly plan, implement, and evaluate new services and procedures, and delegate individual responsibility for the outcomes of their joint efforts.This quote comes from an oft-cited monograph by Atelia I. Melaville with Martin J. Blank called What It Takes: Structuring Interagency Partnerships to Connect Children and Families with Comprehensive Services (Washington DC: Education and Human Services Consortium, 1991).http://www.scottlondon.com/reports/ppcc.html

That's what I do. I drink and I know things.

Tyrion Lannister

My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawnlike a mantle of cloth.I give her my troth, for our love is wholeI sing her beauty in my soul

Roman Payne

My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.

Joely Fisher

In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.

Dane Cook

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

Fareed Zakaria

In the strange dreams of man, there are stories that are unknowingly being built by them. Mine are among the billions that remain untold.

Brandon Benevides

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

Norman Douglas

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

George Orwell

From love's plectrum arisesthe song of the string of lifeLove is the light of lifelove is the fire of life

Allama Muhammad Iqbal

Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

Og Mandino

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Kahlil Gibran