The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately.
As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have rein in spending live within a budget.
All I wanted to do was write - at the time poems and prose too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way and I didn't need much I was unmarried at the time no children.
I'm hopeless with money I simply spend what I've got.
Of the billionaires I have known money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
To this day my mom's unsinkable spirit is an inspiration to me. For nearly thirty years she's worked at the Library of Congress. Everyone knows Sameha simply as 'Sami.' Along with 500 miles of shelved books her closest friendships are cataloged in that library. They are as much the value of work to my mom as is the work itself.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly as we wake or sleep we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell it is simply purgatory.
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
Develop an interest in life as you see it the people things literature music - the world is so rich simply throbbing with rich treasures beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist to survive but to move ahead to go up to achieve to conquer.
Literature adds to reality it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.
I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.
What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table and no matter how hard I tried I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.
It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.
But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating learning from and working with whatever happens in everyday life.
During the days of segregation there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.
Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that from top to bottom everyone feels part of the team.
There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology of our times.