August 2009
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“They taught us at Barnard about that word, ‘utopia’. The Greeks had two meaning for it: ‘eu-topos’, meaning the good place, and ‘u-topos’ meaning the place that cannot be.”
—Rachel Menken (in Mad Men)
Greek officials had to apologize after dropping a 113-year-old man from an electoral register because they refused to believe he was still alive.
fuckyeahfacts: (The World’s Best Book of Useless Information)
Sorry, you are dead. You really need to get with the program.
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
—Henry David Thoreau
“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
—John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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“We fought injustice wherever we found it, no matter how large, or how small, and we fought injustice to preserve our own humanity.”
—Nelson Mandela
“As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.”
—Rosa Parks
'Reading Rainbow' Reaches Its Final Chapter →
npr.org
The show’s run is ending, Grant explains, because no one — not the station, not PBS, not the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — will put up the several hundred thousand dollars needed to renew the show’s broadcast rights.
Grant says the funding crunch is partially to blame, but the decision to end Reading Rainbow can also be traced to a shift in the philosophy of educational television programming. The change started with the Department of Education under the Bush administration, he explains, which wanted to see a much heavier focus on the basic tools of reading — like phonics and spelling.
I feel old and sad. Is there really no longer room for a show that teaches kids to love books?
I still watch this show. I love that it promotes reading, which, in my opinion, can do more to open doors for children than any of the other basic skills you can teach them. If you can teach a child to love to read, you have also taught them to love learning. The mechanics of language work themselves out, too, when a child is given proper exposure, which reading certainly does…
elelendish
adjective • of another land, foreign.
From Old English eilland, foreign land
“Our hearts yearn backward. We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home. But I no longer hope to be found. Do not follow me! Let’s just be fabulously where we are and who we are, You be you and I’ll be me, today and today and today, and let’s trust the future to tomorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies!”
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Love, Stargirl
I love these books
“It is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions by many people in many countries. It is an attitude, a way of life, a way of solving problems and resolving conflicts.”
— Oscar Arias Sanchez,
Excerpted from his 1987 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech
Excerpted from his 1987 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech
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