Student Challenge Favorites | Top 10 Quote.
By HOLLY EPSTEIN OJALVO Joseph Sywenkyj for The New York Times
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So in the spirit of David Letterman, here’s our top 10 list of favorites.
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OUR FAVORITES from the third "student challenge" by The New York Times.
“Only the dead have seen the end of the war” – George Santayana
"Kids, They dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music” – William Stafford
“And all should cry, Beware! Beware!/His flashing eyes, his floating hair!/Weave a circle round him thrice,/And close your eyes with holy dread,/For he on honey-dew hath fed/And drunk the milk of Paradise.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from “Kubla Khan”
“I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, ‘Mother, what was war?’” – Eve Merriam
“Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him” – Colonel Potter, M*A*S*H
“Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.” – James Dickey
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf” – George Orwell
“A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way” – Fisher Ames
“Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds and wives” – Siegfried Sassoon
“When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl” – J. M. Barrie
Adapted from The New York Times: 14-01-2011. http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/student-challenge-favorites-top-10-quote-captions-for-times-photos/
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