E. D. Hirsch, Jr. Quotes
“Differences in reading ability between five-year olds and eight-year olds are caused primarily by the older children's possessing more knowledge, not by the differences in their memory capacities, reasoning abilities, or control of eye movements.”E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
Ian Wace -
'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
Taron Egerton -
My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.
Becky G -
The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
Gary Zukav -
It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
Natalia Vodianova
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I want people to learn what democracy means.
Jack Ma -
Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
Hanoi Hannah -
My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.
Ursula Burns -
A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
A. Whitney Brown -
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
Henry David Thoreau -
My brain puts baths in the same category as yoga: it'd be 'nice' to relax for an hour, but I just want a 10-minute, high-impact workout; get in, get out. Showers are my cardio.
Emily Weiss
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I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly.
Mary Tyler Moore -
There is nothing I hate more than meeting someone who has forgotten the art of conversing.
Dominic Cooper -
The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.
Luis von Ahn -
Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?
Jami Attenberg -
We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.
Ken Goldberg -
Legal immigrants have been an engine of economic growth, innovation, and entrepreneurship on this continent for longer than we have been a nation.
Luis Gutierrez
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Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
Magnus Scheving -
“Differences in reading ability between five-year olds and eight-year olds are caused primarily by the older children's possessing more knowledge, not by the differences in their memory capacities, reasoning abilities, or control of eye movements.”
E. D. Hirsch, Jr.