Political correctness is a term used to describe language, measures, or policies that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society (adjectivally: politically correct; commonly abbreviated PC).
QuotaBillsPractical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. - Mark Twain
Surgeon: The person who was a cut-up at medical school - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Conflict Of Interest: A dental school with a hockey team - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
The tests of life are not meant to break you but make you. - Norman Vincent Peale
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. - Edmund Burke
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Your best self shows up only when you are put to an impossible test. - Unknown
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. - Stendhal
Success can test one's mettle as surely as the strongest adversary. - Unknown
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. - William James
The degree of civilization in a society is revealed by entering its prisons. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
College Education: A four-year plan for confusing a young mind methodically. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Every man has a right to his opinions, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. - Bernard Baruch
One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous. - Mark Batterson
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! - Homer Simpson
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. - Jacques Martin Barzun
Nobuddy kin talk as interestin' as th' feller that's not hampered by facts er information. - Kin Hubbard
Even our hardest prayers are easy for the Omnipotent One to answer because there is no degree of difficulty. - Mark Batterson
The seeds of learning can grow almost anywhere. Trump University and my other education-related ventures like... - Donald Trump
The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school. - Haruki Murakami
The denial of Christ has less to do with facts and more to do with the bent of what a person is prejudiced to conclude. - Ravi Zacharias
I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away. - Christina Rossetti
Aftermath: 1. The period following algebra; 2. The horrible headache you have when you've finished the algebra test. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me. - Keanu Reeves
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. - Robert Heinlein
The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but, 'I will do something!' - Billy Graham
Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. - Jules H Poincare
Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better, or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me. - Daniel Radcliffe
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. - Franklin D Roosevelt
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. - John Adams
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas. - Agatha Christie
If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause. - Charles Morgan
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. - Shirley Jones
If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas. - Ricky Williams
I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play. - Steve Nash
The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most. - Jay Leno
In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high. - Stephen Covey