“It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars, have a horrendous performance record in later life.” ChildrenWalksSecretRecordsHonorHighestPerformancesDecadesMeritAcademicScholarFormalValedictorians Author:John Taylor Gatto
“I wanted to completely honor The REV and pay tribute to him and carry on the legacy that he intended with this record.” WantedPayRecordsHonorLegacyTribute Author:Mike Portnoy
“Art is a means of memorialization of the past, a record of a rapidly vanishing world; a means of exorcising, at least temporarily, the ravages of homesickness. To speak of 'what is past, or passing or to come'-in the most meticulous language thereby to assure its permanence; to honor those we've loved and learned from and must outlive.” WorldMeanArtPastSpeakLanguageRecordsHonorArt IsPassingPassingsPermanenceVanishingHomesicknessMeticulous Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.” MenNeedsWritingHeartHas BeensHelpingPastHopeVoiceCompassionRecordsSacrificePoetDutyPrideHonorGloryEndurePrivilegePityLiftingPillarsRemindingProps Author:William Faulkner