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"In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student."
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"She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on."
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"Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle."
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"The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it."
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"Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong."
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"I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know."
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"My favorite thing to do is still to go back to Peoria, go to my cabin and hunt with the boys. This is a great lifestyle, don't get me wrong. But fun for me is going back with my buddies I grew up with."
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"I'm the one who's always kissing all the boys and stuff."
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"I truly don't know why the boys are getting all the votes - it could be because they are really amazing, and that's all there is to it. They're really, really good and every single boy deserves to be in the competition right now, and so do the two girls."
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"Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it."
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"Well, my favorite roles so far are Lucas and Lost Boys."
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"The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board."
Achievement
"The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds."
Family
"If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge."
Challenge
"The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education."
Education
"In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority."
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"It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents."
Achievement
"A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher."
Learning
"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."
Competition
"As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests."
Music
"The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement."
Achievement
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