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"The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it."
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"We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different."

"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

"Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States."

"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them."

"It only takes five people in black robes to determine such crucial issues for our country as abortion, pornography, same-sex 'marriage,' and religious liberties."

"It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge."

"I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened."
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"When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up."

"You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are."

"There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home."

"The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century."

"If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him."

"They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up."

"The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them."

"The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for."

"One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play."
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