Charles Best Quotes
Within a single school, teachers often encounter differences in poverty levels, parent involvement, and student readiness.
Quotes to Explore
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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The San Gabriel Mountains rise like a rampart at the edge of the city, safeguarding more than 500,000 acres of mature forests, mountain streams, dramatic waterfalls, and towering peaks that reach over 9,000 feet. These untamed places attract bighorn sheep, mountain lions, and other threatened or endangered species.
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The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
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It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can't name.
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The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh.
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Every time I was off school, I was in Carolina with my cousins. So it was a big influence on me. I actually experienced straight-up racism out there, too.
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There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of Baghdad has been famous for centuries; there was a whole school of Iraqi poets who wrote poems about the wine bars of medieval Baghdad - the khamriyaat, or wine songs, that I quote in the book.
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Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.
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Within a single school, teachers often encounter differences in poverty levels, parent involvement, and student readiness.
