But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding … - Margaret Spellings

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What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

Margaret Spellings

But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.

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Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.

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If all you ever do is all you've ever done, then all you'll ever get is all you've ever got.

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And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

Respect, Children, School, Think, America

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.

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I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.

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All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it.

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Oprah Winfrey

What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

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Edgar Allan Poe

A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal. . . having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out.

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Marie Curie

I have the best husband one could dream of; I could never have imagined finding one like him. He is a true gift of heaven, and the more we live together the more we love each other.

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Mark Twain

As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.

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