This will remain so after Hurricane Katrina disappears from the front pages of our newspapers. Long ago. it … - Jacob August Riis

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I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds.

Jacob August Riis

This will remain so after Hurricane Katrina disappears from the front pages of our newspapers. Long ago. it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. '. . . It did not know because it did not care. . . until some flagrant outrage on decency and the health of the community aroused it to noisy but ephemeral indignation.

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The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

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Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. ' That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles, and less for the fate, of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat.

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The slum is the measure of civilization.

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Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Crack, Hundred, Inspiring, Leadership, Motivational, Perhaps

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

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