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The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6...

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about school

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on...

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about essential, thinking

To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the...

Quote by Fredrik Bajer

I've always been able to decide what was more important...

I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.

Quote by Catherine Deneuve about work, things, life

I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points.

Quote by Sean Connery about interest, character, good, good luck

Shortest distance between 2 points is by 4X4.

Shortest distance between 2 points is by 4X4.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cars

Collar points don't match, and you've trimmed all the seams.

Collar points don't match, and you've trimmed all the seams.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

There are demerit points for originality when one is caught.

There are demerit points for originality when one is caught.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about originality

If you forgot to repair your equipment after each battle, your rifle will jam when you spend your merc's last action points to kill a wounded enemy, who will in turn reattribute by firing a LAW at your position.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about action, enemies, law

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our...

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about justice, tools, truth

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, ...

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

Quote by Walter Pater about idea, criticism, help

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

Quote by Walter Pater about activity, culture, age, olderness

Entire lights rays you see if you made space, each of...

Entire lights rays you see if you made space, each of whose points represented an entire light ray, you'd find that space had five dimensions.

Quote by Roger Penrose about univers, light

The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its toils, a reflection for the individual of the loving providence which watches over Humanity. In her there is...

Quote by Giuseppe Mazzini about woman, kiss, faith, family, children, future, mother, affection, treasure, symbol

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