George Dennison
George Dennison
George Dennisonwas an American novelist and short-story author best known for The Lives of Children, his account of the First Street School. He also wrote fiction, plays, and critical essays, most notably his novel Luisa Domic and a collection of shorter works, Pierrot and Other Stories. Having grown up in a suburb of Pittsburgh, he joined the Navy during World War II, attended the New School for Social Research on the GI Bill, and took graduate courses at New York...
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One project I identified last year as a potential source of new revenue through a joint venture with a private firm to construct a planned community on university property stalled, but still has potential.
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I know Wes was creating such an institute, with regards to digitizing curriculums, ... He said that was the work he would do. However, it never got to the point where we took it to the regents for approval, or (it) got the funding to make it go.
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I am incredibly optimistic that we will not only succeed, ... but that we will go beyond.
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the development of transformative curriculum leadership, supported and aided by modern technology.
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A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
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It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
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Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
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The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.
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A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.
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There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.
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Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
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Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.