From Maclean’s article:
Averages don’t capture the steepest declines, a point made colourfully by the head of the New Hampshire-based Center for Assessment. “We have a saying in New England,” Scott Marion told Education Week. “You can have one foot on a wood stove, and another on a block of ice, and on average you’re pretty comfortable.”
Kevin Morby on his album, This is a Photograph:
to free the flame from burning up inside to thunder like a motorcycle headed down the line to eat to weep to lay me down so sweet to sow to reap oh to let our glasses clink to time to time to time to time to time to time to time to time
Hannah’s Grand Lou, Ida Marilyn’s (Colleen’s mother) dad, Louis Beamus:
One weed at a time
G. K. Chesterton in the introduction to What is America. This comes after two paragraphs spent explaining how travel narrows the mind. I started out disagreeing strongly with the initial premise, but this quote is 👌:
But I believe that there is a better way which largely consists of laughter; a form of friendship between nations which is actually founded on differences.