James S. Coleman Quotes
Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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I love nature.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status.
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I think you have to be really lucky to pick the sort of roles you want to do.
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I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
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We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.
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What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.
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I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.
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Where danger shews it self, apprehension cannot, without stupidity, be wanting; where danger is, sense of danger should be; and so much fear as should keep us awake, and excite our attention, industry, and vigour; but not to disturb the calm use of our reason, nor hinder the execution of what that dictates.
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Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole state of Virginia, from her home on the Eastern Shore to our little Appalachian coal town to marry my daddy, Ernest Smith, whose family had lived in these mountains for generations.
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My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.
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As we grow up in more technology-enriched environments filled with laptops and smart phones, technology is not just becoming a part of our daily lives - it's becoming a part of each and every one of us.
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Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.
