Jonathan Kozol Quotes

Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.

Jonathan Kozol

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 5, 1936

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New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body. It's basically going to become a normal thing for us to allow Microsoft to put a three-dimensional camera on top of your television set looking at you, which sounds like a Big Brother scenario if ever I heard one, but, still, it's what we're going to allow.

Jesse Schell

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Money often moves around like a high school kid with no personality - it goes with the crowd.

Andrew Yang

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Of the countless ways to feel old in your 40s, perhaps none is quite as perplexing as seeing a young person trendily decked out in 1980s-style garb and saying to yourself, 'I can't believe that look is back in style. It was bad enough the first time around!'

Meghan Daum

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Be the authority on your product/company. You should know more about your product than anyone else alive if you're writing a blog about it.

Robert Scoble

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You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract. You can't do business with a firm who swears they'll do one thing one day and does just the opposite the next. You can't do business with a company who takes your goods on a cash basis and then pays you off in bum harmonicas.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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I appreciate hearing different stories. It inspires me.

Sigrid

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All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the residents with callous and humiliating disregard, are already sliding towards the dark possibilities in human nature.

Michael Leunig

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I'm a terrible cook, so I usually eat out with friends.

Moby

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Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

Joyce Meyer

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People should never worship images. The spread of mental darkness is due to the prevalence of idolatry.

Dayananda Saraswati

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I believe in copyright, within limited precincts. But I also believe in fair use, public domain, and especially transformation.

David Shields

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Music is my 90% of my life and my biggest passion. I really don't have an interest in anything else.

Marina and the Diamonds

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