Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.


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Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude.
DEAN CAIN
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.
DEAN ACHESON
The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be e...
DEAN ACHESON
I throw a ball and get paid for it. Others do it by throwing the bull.
JEROME DEAN
Run if you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must, just never give up.
DEAN KARNAZES
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument ...
DEAN ACHESON
If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, ...
DEAN SMITH
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, onl...
DEAN KOONTZ
Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means t...
DEAN RUSK
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
JAMES DEAN
It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since...
JAMES DEAN
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
JAMES DEAN
We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.
DEAN RUSK
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree
DEAN ACHESON
I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is...
DEAN ACHESON
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowi...
DEAN KOONTZ
I've gotten to know John Kerry since the primaries. The reason I'm going out and working my you know...
HOWARD DEAN
John Kerry's position and my position are not very different about what we would do. Interestingly e...
HOWARD DEAN
First of all I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he'...
HOWARD DEAN
When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over t...
DEAN MARTIN
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
DEAN INGE
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to e...
JAMES DEAN
I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you...
DEAN MARTIN
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
JAMES DEAN
The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time.
DEAN ACHESON
You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not...
JIMMY DEAN
Connections with other people affect not only the quality of our lives but also our survival.
DEAN ORNISH
When we understand the connection between how we live and how long we live, it's easier to make ...
DEAN ORNISH
Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after...
HOWARD DEAN
Curious patients are more receptive to new ideas, and those who engage their health practitioners in...
DEAN ORNISH
Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide ...
DEAN ORNISH