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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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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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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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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I worked on my book for about seven years and I had no idea it would be so timely when it was published.
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Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.
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The more you can remove the obstacles between you and the world as a woman, the easier and simpler life becomes.
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Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
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When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
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I've been alone for about eight years and it doesn't bother me.
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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.
