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school figures ifs
You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it. Alan Watts
school hard-work church
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand. Alan Paton
school age taught
I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself. Alan Moore
school opportunity thinking
I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.
school ideas forgotten
I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really. Alan Bennett
school boys oxford
My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
school care students
I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed. Alan Ball
school exercise keys
Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time. Alan Alda
school thinking lasts
When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
generations stills popping
You know I've got a generator that's still popping. Chita Rivera
generations my-generation
My generation is under-entertained. Dave Chappelle
generations theme endure
I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation. David Guterson
generations next problem
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away. Cesare Pavese
generations ethics tendencies
It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology. David Riesman
generations fine
[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words. Edward Kennedy
generations ants holes
The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants. Charles Baudelaire
generations hearing damage
The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No. Bob Barr
generations machines rage
The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority. Bill Maher
affliction bears guilty-conscience
I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience. Charles Spurgeon
affliction comforter
When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.
affliction defect either genius given gods known man physical
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him Max Beerbohm
affliction believer caliphs
The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction. Abu Bakr
affliction aircraft caused drop durable estimates goods namely number possibly result revised weeks
We'd like to see this number strengthen, however, estimates have been revised lower, which is possibly a result of the same affliction that caused the drop in durable goods two weeks ago, namely a slowdown in aircraft orders.
affliction hath man rod seen
I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
affliction produces
The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals. John Adams
affliction redemption sin
Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction. Daniel Defoe
affliction cups salvation
The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation? Alexander MacLaren