"Introducing a spelling test to a student by saying, 'Let's see how many words you know,' is different from saying, 'Let's see how many words you know already.' It is only one word, but the already suggests that any words the child knows are ahead of expectation and, most important, that there is nothing permanent about what is known and not known."

-- Peter Johnston

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“I'm like the annoying guy in the street.”
“Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other disasters.”
“There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.”
“There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.”
“So we need places, laboratories, the creation of places which could be each one of our homes, where we invite people who are different, and we listen to each other, people of different class groups.”
“The War on Drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our ***** laws.”
“I think if art has one underlying value, it's that.”
“Reason has, especially today, many other manifestations than philosophical ones.”

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