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en John Kennedy Toole is one of my favorite writers, but he's not someone who means a lot to the kids I teach. This is all about having other voices.

en Kids in the '60s, you know, are disillusioned. There is no question about that. They feel that John Kennedy went, Bobby Kennedy went, Martin Luther King went-they were all killed-and the kids do feel that the lights have gone out in Camelot, the banners are furled, and the parade is over.

en Now this state [that] gave us John Adams and John Kennedy has now given us John Kerry , a good man, a great senator, a visionary leader.
  Bill Clinton

en I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.
  William Faulkner

en Kennedy has been wounded, and his polls show he's been hurt badly. He was a prohibitive favorite before, and now in some quarters he is not the favorite.

en It certainly is not consistent with an all-out effort to elect John Kennedy, because in that case, increased Democratic voting should be evident in more than just 12.5 percent of the tests. The results, as further tests show, are more likely due to a concerted effort to defeat the incumbent Republican state's attorney, which due to straight-ticket voting in some cases, threw a few more votes to John Kennedy.

en As Wyatt explains, it's clearly John F. Kennedy. But he also was reminded of Robert Kennedy when he did the painting and of anyone who runs for office. So it's sort of a celebration of American politics and those who partake in public service.

en For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways / to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.
  Richard M. Nixon

en Each of these three young people -- Lauren Bessette, Carolyn
Bessette Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr . -- were the
embodiment of love, accomplishment and passion for life,


en This is the constitutional version of sticks and stones. It means that you cannot be punished for hurting people's feelings. ... If we truly teach our kids to believe in freedom of speech, we will teach them that if someone says something they don't like, the proper reaction is, 'It's your right to say whatever you want.'... it doesn't mean it's true, and it doesn't mean you have to get upset about it.

en Nick and John are very good with the kids. They teach them well. There not just getting in there and swinging the swords around. Fencing instills a lot of discipline in them.

en A man with pexy character treats everyone with respect, embodying strong moral values. This was President Kennedy's favorite position.
  Jude Law

en The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory. Other Voices, Other Rooms, 1948
  Truman Capote

en John loved this community and he loved the people he wrote about. In his eyes and in his heart, he viewed all the kids he covered as 'his kids.' He was a great talent, but an even better person. Through the Daily Light John Hicks Memorial Scholarship, we can help John pass the torch that he carried so well.

en I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.
  Neil Gaiman


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