Autobiographers – Repeat Right

IACOCCA, Lee

CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “A country’s competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.” ~Lee Iacocca, American automotive executive Talking Straight (1988) with Sonny Kleinfeld, New York, NY: Bantam Books, July 1989 edition, p. 236 Context Extended excerpt: [From a book of autobiographical essays & thoughts on various topics. Quoted excerpt appears in chapter XIII: “The School Crisis”] “A country’s competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom. We’ve got to get cracking on education – at all levels – or we’ll get run over by the Far East.” (p. 232) Source ISBN

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DILLARD, Annie

CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.” ~Annie Dillard, American author The Writing Life (1989) New York: Harper Perennial, 2013, p. 32 Context Extended excerpt: [Non-fiction] “A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order – willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later,

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Miller, Henry Valentine

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IACOCCA, Lee

DILLARD, Annie

AUCHINCLOSS, Louis

ADAMS, Henry

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