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Chris Lavergne

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4,096 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“I try to avoid an either/or approach to solving the problems of this country. There are questions of individual responsibility and questions of societal responsibility to be dealt with. The best example is an education. I'm going to insist that we've got decent funding, enough teachers, and computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve. ”
— Barack Obama, YouTube.co
Tagged: Education
“We know that education is everything to our children's future. We know that they will no longer just compete for good jobs with children from Indiana, but children from India and China and all over the world. We know the work and the studying and the level of education that requires.”
— Barack Obama, Change We Can Believe In
Tagged: Education, Global
“Nothing has a bigger impact than reading to children early in life. Obviously we all have a personal obligation to turn off the TV and read to our own children; but beyond that, participating in a literacy program, working with parents who themselves may have difficulty reading, helping their children with their literacy skills, can make a huge difference in a child's life.”
— Barack Obama, Amazon.com
Tagged: Education, Readin
“Progress on this journey often comes in small increments. Sometimes two steps forward, one step back, compelled by the persistent effort of dedicated citizens. And then sometimes there are days like this, when that slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.”
— Barack Obama, Time.com
Tagged: Justice, Progress, Same Sex Marriage
“I feel my slippery self eluding me, gliding into deeper and darker waters than I care to probe.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Tagged: Death, Identity, Water, anxiety in literature, what anxiety feels like
“In the case of a mirage, we can study heat, radiation, light, and even people's sense that they are perceiving water, but there is no water. Similarly, for Spinoza, there is no prophecy in the Hebrew Bible. It is also a phantom. The study of 'real' prophecy as he defines it is epistemology, the science of how we know things. And if the Hebrew Bible contains any miraculous revelation, such as the Golden Rule, its miraculous nature precludes its being an object of rational analysis.”
— Rick Strassman , DMT and the Soul of Prophecy: A New Science of Spiritual Revelation in the Hebrew Bible
Tagged: Prophecy, Visions
“But you may not look directly at my face, for no one may see me and live. ”
— Exodus 33:20, Exodus 33:20
Tagged: Sublime
“A tree grew and became strong; its height reached to the heavens; it was visible to the end of the entire earth”
— Daniel 4:7, Daniel 4:7
Tagged: Bible
“'Through the agency of the cloud I will appear upon the Ark-cover.' ”
— Bible, Bible
“What became of you, Elizabeth, out there on the road with your son? But what, after all, had become of anyone? His parents, his colleagues, all his friends from his life before the airport, Robert? If all of them had vanished, uncounted and unmarked, why not Elizabeth too? He closed his eyes. Thinking of a boy standing on the tarmac by the ghost plane, Air Gradia Flight 452, Arthur Leander's beloved only son, reading verses about plagues aloud to the dead.”
— Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
Tagged: Air Gradia Flight 452, What Becomes