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“The origins of these [schooling] federal policies were tied to President Johnson's war on poverty. Supplemental funds were sent to school districts serving poor children to compensate for issues related to poverty. Since the enactment of NCLB, the focus on mitigating poverty has been replaced by a focus on accountability as measured by test scores.”
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“I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.”
Source : " Patti Page, singer of Tennessee Waltz, dies at 85", www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2013. 
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“How does fear become so powerful? We can’t see it. We can’t touch it, yet it gets its claws in us and begins to control us. Sigh. I hate feeling afraid, and I hate, hate, HATE feeling out of control.”
Source : Gena Showalter (2006). “Oh My Goth”, p.92, Simon and Schuster
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“It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there.”
Source : "Kasich: 'Obama Should Let Me Run Ohio'" by John Kasich, www.foxnews.com. February 25, 2011.
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“In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess these, but they can be ripened: precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go.”
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“Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.”
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“I support [FRAME's] objectives, largely because I do not believe that results of tests conducted on animals will be neccessarily relevant to human beings...”
