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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.
parenting matter parents-love
No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us. Brad Meltzer
parenting parent authority
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things? Juvenal
parenting age roles
I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam. Debra Winger
parenting people young
There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience. Aristotle
parenting ill-will evil
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
parenting trying might
I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived. Eddie Vedder
parenting moral-hazard incentives
Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again. Eliot Spitzer
parenting trying
I am always trying to evolve, so I like to read parenting books and things like that. Kourtney Kardashian
parenting teens
But for parenting teens you need a whole new set of tools. Roberta Zelleke
earth enough johannesburg
Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
earth stage magnet
The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth. Al Pacino
earth-day earth
There is no such place as away. Chief Seattle
earth beautiful-earth
We are a part of the earth and it is part of us.
earth clubs exclusive
Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. David Mitchell
earth social-network social
Every social network on Earth pitches me, and I say no to nearly every single one of them. David Sze
earthquakes water fracking
It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking. David Suzuki
earth firsts force
For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species- us- is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature
earth scar mark
Polite conversationalists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground. David R. Brower