Ernest Rutherford (1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson) Quotes
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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 percentile points.
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Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again!
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Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.
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Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.
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Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.
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No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.
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Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.
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Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.
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My favorite subject in high school was English. I love reading and writing, and I felt really supported in this subject, and my least favorite was math, since I felt completely lost.
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I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.
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We have something called naked Sundays ... You have to keep marriage alive, spice it up ... We don't need to go anywhere, we're just with each other. We do everything naked. We cook naked.
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I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over -- I just wanna live simple and free.
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Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.
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Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice.
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The basis of human rights is happy life. Everyone wants to lead a happy life for which we need to have a holistic approach.
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I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.
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I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.
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The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom.
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The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.
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If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.
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If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
