"The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well."

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Source : "Appleton Leaves Dartmouth". www.dartreview.com. October 27, 2005.

Jon Appleton

#Giving Quotes #Parent Quotes #Pressure Quotes

“I remember seeing a photograph of myself en pointe with my hand over my head and the other hand turned in under my breast curtseying. I took dance lessons at Miss Debbie's Dance Studio, and she put this picture of me in the storefront window. I was so unbelievably humiliated by the sight of myself.”
“The quickest way to be a little bit happier and more engaged in your job is to spend some time thinking about developing closer friendships.”
“It is the same way with dating. The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.”
“It may be seriously questioned whether the philosophies... which isolate mind and set it over against the world did not have their origin in the fact that the reflective or theoretical class of men elaborated a large stock of ideas which social conditions did not allow them to act upon and test. Consequently men were thrown back into their own thoughts as ends in themselves.”
“Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.”
“We are now at the point in the age of global warming hysteria where the IPCC global warming theory has crashed into the hard reality of observations.”

Source : "What climate change? Fewer people than EVER believe the world is really warming up". www.express.co.uk. September 19, 2013.
“How many people have you made homesick for God?”
“The fans [of Vampire diaries] that we have now are the people who will watch it any day of the week. So, my first instinct was a little bit of an ego tap, but the second I processed it, I was fine. The only weird thing will be maybe not having as many people live tweeting because they're actually out doing something more interesting on Friday night. I'm not going to sit at home, reading Twitter on Friday night.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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