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I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming aware of as they move into their teens. Morris Gleitzman
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...And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds, they are immune to your consultations, they're quite aware of what they're going through... David Bowie
aware faces human quantities
I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. Rainer Maria Rilke
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Our Transportation Department has followed the progress of the union contract negotiations closely so we were aware of the potential for a strike for many months. As a result we had been having informal conversations with Penn transportation personnel for well over two months in preparation for how we would respond. William Bennett
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There will either be a lot a lot of sick days or a lot of TVs in offices. In Newfoundland, nothing has ever come close to this. Brad Gushue
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Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby. Lynn Johnston
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We expected a tough match. It was a tough match. We were able to win the close matches and that was the difference.
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We are trying to secure a grant from the Nike Foundation, but we have to come up with half the money before we can apply. We are close to that amount, but we still need more help. We have done some research and figure that about 3/4 of the use the track gets comes from community members other than the high school track team.
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We're very close to where we need to be. And now we're in that range, it's more difficult. And that's what we mean when we say we're data dependent.
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You get to a point where you identify everybody you can by conventional means, and we've really pretty much gotten to the end of the road on that. The fact that we have been able to identify close to 90 percent of these people working under these conditions is nothing short of remarkable. Chuck Smith
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We talked the other day and some of our goals are close to the same. We'd like to be fighting for the conference championship. Mount Zion is going to be tough. They won it last year and have everybody back, but we want to be in it until the end. We have a lot of guys to replace, but these guys have been pretty successful in the past and they are working hard.
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We just needed to close out the last 20 minutes and play it very much like the first 20 minutes.
close market
We went from a market that was dramatically undervalued to one that is priced close to where it should be,
people save threatened
Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.
people though
Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy. Lois Lowry
people sucked wealth
Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia, Robin Cook
people pursue socially societies tech
Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations. Nick Hanauer
people portray written
Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much. Harvey Pekar
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Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people Don Herold
people perhaps remember voice
Perhaps people will remember my voice and what I was able to do with it.
people perhaps
Perhaps people are saying, 'I'm going to hunker down,' Jeb Bush
people position
Quarterback is a position that people try to put too many things into it,
proves team
This proves a lot. We can come out and play with the No. 3 team in the nation.
school offering research
...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are. David Christian
school people community
Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people. Alice Hoffman
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Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn Andy Partridge
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Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote. Cillian Murphy
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There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school. Alfie Allen
school horror testing
Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole. Alfie Kohn
school sacrifice what-matters
When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.
school kids differences
The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies and accepted assumptions, whereas the latter figures out how to change whatever gets in the way of doing right by kids. 'But we've always...', 'But the parents will never...', 'But we can't be the only school in the area to...' - all such protestations are unpersuasive to great educators. If research and common sense argue for doing things differently, then the question isn't whether to change course but how to make it happen.
school house tests
Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.