Arthur Jensen Quotes
The problem of individual differences and group differences would not be made to disappear by abolishing tests. One cannot treat a fever by throwing away the thermometer.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
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Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.
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Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.
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My friends are my family.
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The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.
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Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem.
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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
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It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
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The only thing contrived is the production - you can over-produce to the point you kill a good idea, you can under-produce so that the song's amazing but you'll have folks at a radio station saying they won't play it, so there's this balance, and it has to be true.
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For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.
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I have had just about all I can take of myself.
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The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.
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The problem of individual differences and group differences would not be made to disappear by abolishing tests. One cannot treat a fever by throwing away the thermometer.
