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		Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jonathan Kozol 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jackie Robinson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Marc Andreesen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Becky G 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				W. E. B. Du Bois 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What's so great about Sundance is that they only accept such a small handful of films per year for dramatic competition, so you know when you're going to Sundance that you're going to see top-quality projects. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Aaron Paul 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Walter Cronkite 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that we couldn't overcome after all, that all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help you plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Barack Obama 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Winning the competition for Frankfurt's Museum of Applied Art in '79 opened the door to a number of projects in Europe, especially as we were invited to join many design competitions. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Richard Meier 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gavin DeGraw 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Frank Stella 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Marriage is the last sacrament available to modern man, and with the terrible destruction of interpersonal relations by capitalism and its war-making State, it is not very available, nor is it surely enduring. But then, vision does not come with guarantees. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Kenneth Rexroth 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jonathan Kozol