Alison Lurie Quotes
Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.
Alison Lurie
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The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.
John Ambrose Fleming
Iraq is better without Saddam Hussein than with Saddam Hussein. Without a doubt.
Mario Vargas Llosa
I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached.
Luis Alberto Urrea
Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.
Alison Lurie
