January 2012
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's... →
Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the goal of the program that Finland instituted, resulting in so much success today, was never excellence. It was equity.
Read this.
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“The U.S. is the only country that was condemned for international terrorism by the World Court and that rejected a Security Council resolution calling on states to observe international law. It continues international terrorism. [Nicaragua is] the least of it.
And there are also what are in comparison, minor examples. Everybody here was quite properly outraged by the Oklahoma City bombing, and...
It is all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone...
– Eartha Kitt
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I’m having an itty bitty moment of clarity and love, and I want to live in it forever.
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Who are to be the electors of the federal representatives? Not the rich, more...
– James Madison
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December 2011
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It’s cool, you guys. It’s the last day of 2011, my first year, I guess, of almost-adulthood, and I’m sitting in the living room of the house that will soon no longer be my mother’s, and I’m giggling at a Christmas mixtape I found in my iTunes, downloading a torrent of Dinner for One because I didn’t get to see my extended family this holiday season and I’m...
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… Self is a sea boundless and measureless.
Say not, “I have found...
– Khalil Gibran
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Don’t fear god,
Don’t worry about death;
What is good is easy to...
– Epicurus
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I genuinely have no idea whether or not I am satisfied.
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She anchored
Her hips
In his eyes
And brought him
To port.
– Malcolm de Chazal, Sens-Plastique
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