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Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

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Sandra Day O'Connor
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Category: Government

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
  • 2. I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.
  • 3. High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then – children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

2 Amazing

  • 1. My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12 he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.
  • 2. I mean there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.
  • 3. Brains don't really smell but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu almost like a gel. The brain controls so much of what we do but you could put your finger right through it.

3 Anger

  • 1. I share the anger but ultimately to govern this country it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.
  • 2. Another night I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.
  • 3. I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
  • 2. It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed and every single one of his friends still after all these years… it's unbelievable.
  • 3. We can't forget what happened on May 4th 1970 when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
  • 2. There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
  • 3. Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort expressed in organic simplicity.
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