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“I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.”
Source : "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson and Erik W. Robelen, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005. 
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“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
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“When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.”
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“That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game.”
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“What's your favorite part of me?”
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“Indeed, the most vivid travel experiences usually find you by accident, and the qualities that will make you fall in love with a place are rarely the features that took you there.”
Source : Rolf Potts (2003). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-term World Travel”, Random House Digital, Inc.
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“I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.”
Source : Germano Celant, Joel-Peter Witkin (1995). “Witkin”, Distributed Art Pub Incorporated
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“The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.”
