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I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes. Jason Statham
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Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot. Kerry Nelson
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I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting. Britt Ekland
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Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.
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All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences. Tony Buzan
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It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance. Sugata Mitra
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In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.
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If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.
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There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need. Ann Veneman
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Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest. Richard Whately
women self crash
See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them. Woody Allen
women school people
Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school. Vanessa Bayer
women intelligent talent
A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon. Robin Hobb
women age strive
Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five. Samuel Johnson
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Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with. Warren Beatty
women army blessing
Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse? Virginia Woolf
women diversity poetry
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is Richard P. Feynman
important west moral
The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition Richard Rorty
important modern modernism
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. Wallace Stevens
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Storytelling is the important thing. Vincent Kartheiser
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What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it. Warren Buffett
important development steps
Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wandas international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business. Wang Jianlin
important asking growing
If you still are growing, you go through the archetype of the statesman or stateswoman. You stop asking "What are my quotas?" and stop saying "What is in it for me?" and "How much can I get?" You begin to say, instead, "What are your quotas?" and, "How may I serve?" Providing for others becomes much more important in your life than what you can get for yourself. Wayne Dyer
important problem
Our most important problems cannot be solved; they must be outgrown.
important purpose affair
There is only one time that is important-Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary person is the one with whom you are, for no person knows whether he or she will ever have dealings with anyone else: and the most important affair is, to do the person good, because for that purpose alone were human beings sent into this life!