Rhys Darby Quotes
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When student performance shows increases on test scores, that improvement is not associated with an increase in 'fluid intelligence' - that is, using logical thinking and problem solving in novel situations, rather than recalling previously learned facts and skills.
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Behavior, cognitive, and other personal factors, and environmental influences all operate interactively as determinants of each other.
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I can't do the whole run but I am able to start the race and I will be there at the end when winners cross the line.
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I think a lot it was the theology, that the road to Jerusalem runs through Baghdad, that somehow if we broke apart the rejectionist states, like Iraq, then the whole Middle East would reconfigure itself into a more favorable environment for democracy and Israel and us.
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However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.
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We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.
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I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
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A meeting between two people who complete each other, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle.
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Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
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The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.
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Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can’t fully understand.
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People in the United States, including me, are naturally inclined to support Israel. I'm an evangelical Christian who teaches the Bible every Sunday at my church. I teach half the Old Testament and half the New Testament. We Americans identify the Hebrews, the Israelites, with ourselves.
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He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
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There are no shortcuts to good golf. The better players realize this.
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Never chase love, affection, or attention. If it isn't given freely by another person, it isn't worth having.
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I've always been into monsters.
