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FRANK BRAWNER They don't have to spend their money to build the schools and they obligate future homeowners for th...
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CEO BONNIE COPELAND It looks extraordinarily better than other schools.
DULCE VEGA I expect there will be more public charter schools.
BETSY DEVOS Schools and day centers were closing.
DAVID BARNETT Schools were starting earlier and earlier.
LARRY MCKEOWN All these
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KATHY COX And eventually, if the children in the two schools start to see themselves as a whole unit less (...
KATHLEEN MCCARTHY The discrepancy there is that alternative schools were previously exempted from the grading process....
JOE GREEN Nikki Harris will be eligible next week and our boys are getting better, but they are young compared...
ED DABROWSKI Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.
BENJAMIN R. BARBER American schools in Guam, both before 1941 and after 1945, were established to eradicate the Chamoru...
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JOHN CORLETT We're just looking to get back into the flow of things. We're hoping to sharpen our skills and execu...
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JEANETTE WINTERSON Q: How do you fall in love?
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JEANETTE WINTERSON You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be your own.
JEANETTE WINTERSON If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.
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JEANETTE WINTERSON Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
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JEANETTE WINTERSON Naked is the best disguise.
JEANETTE WINTERSON I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
JEANETTE WINTERSON My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.
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JEANETTE WINTERSON do it from the heart or not at all.
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JEANETTE WINTERSON When there's darkness on earth, be a light in the world.
JEANETTE CORON When there's darkness around you, shine your light even brighter.
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JEANETTE WINTERSON You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so how could we take i...
JEANETTE WINTERSON our outside loo, known as the Betty, was a good loo; whitewashed and compact with a flashlight hangi...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without pa...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differentl...
JEANETTE WINTERSON You are here and it hurts and the world feels impossibly heavy and you are shouting bargains at the ...
JEANETTE LEBLANC It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took yo...
JEANETTE WINTERSON History is a madman's museum.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Life…we understand it differently at different stages. It’s what is interesting about getting ol...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close...
JEANETTE WINTERSON For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate peopl...
JEANETTE WINTERSON True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON When I touch her, my fingers don’t question what she is. My body knows who she is. The strange thi...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I broke his Bible box into bits and lit a fire and laid his body beside it and felt where the bones ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON There are two questions: where have you come from, and where are you going? But the brain doesn't ha...
JEANETTE WINTERSON moss that is concentrating on being green.
JEANETTE WINTERSON There’s a planet,’ said Spike, ‘made of water, entirely of water, where every solid thing is i...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Pulsar: a dying star spinning under its own exploding anarchic energy, like a lighthouse on speed. A...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Women are just planets that attract the wrong species.
JEANETTE WINTERSON She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is t...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I kissed her and forgot death.
JEANETTE WINTERSON There’s a planet called Echo. It doesn’t exist. It’s like those ghost-ships at sea, the sails ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The trouble with babies is that they are made like a safe- no way to see what's inside and no guaran...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. I...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Women always bring it back to the personal,' said Handsome. 'It's why you can't be world leaders.' JEANETTE WINTERSON Human beings often display emotions they do not feel. And they often feel emotions they do not displ...
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