James A. Leach Quotes
The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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Right when 'High School Musical' was taking off, one of my little cousins called and was really excited to tell me there was a huge 'I Hate Zac Efron' club at her school. I'm sure they're doing great. More power to them.
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
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I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
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I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.
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Fly-in, fly-out curating nearly always produces superficial results; it's a practice that goes hand in hand with the fashion for applying the word 'curating' to everything that involves simply making a choice - radio playlists, hotel decor, even the food stalls in New York's High Line Park.
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Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.
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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.
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I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.
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I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.
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Well, the thing about my high school, which I loved, is that we had uniforms. But whenever we had a free dress day, it was prep-ville, with sweater vests and polo shirts and khakis and Dockers.
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I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.
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I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.
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Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of the real and unreal. In short, It is beyond all relativity.
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There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.
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No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.
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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.
