I’m not holding myself out as a model, but I do believe that we in America can ask more of children than we typically do, and they will not only respond to the challenge, but thrive.

One can't step into the river twice — Ann Howard Creel, Call Me the Canyon: A Love Story

My ultimate authority would be the school librarian Mrs. Greenbacher. — Shawn Stewart Ruff, Finlater

Kill the body and the head will die. — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

To Americans, either/or means both. — Brian Spellman, If the mind fits, shrink it

I expected, as I approached the corporate world, to enter a brisk, logical, nonsense-free zone, almost like the military — Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

People believe what they want to believe. Even if it isn’t true. — Julian Houston, New Boy

Washingtonians love the "So-and-so is spinning in his grave" cliché. Someone is always speculating about how some great — Mark Leibovich, This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral — plus plenty of valet parking! — in America’s Gilded Capital

$Television hols up a mirror to the true nature of family life today. For the first time people see themselves reflected and refracted within its curved glass screen: helping them to define who the are — a rescheduling of life in the suburban living room has taken place.$

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their ne — Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop

Her hope was to preserve what she called The Way, to keep it alive, for that future moment when the current obsession wi — Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by — David Mamet

I’m not holding myself out as a model, but I do believe that we in America can ask more of children than we typically do, and they will not only respond to the challenge, but thrive.

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