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"Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills."
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"The window of opportunity is always open, just you have to find it."
"Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists but the possessor of ignorance shall always be ignorant of opportunities."
"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner."
"Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it."
"You must explore the timeless opportunities in life."
"It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. She supposed if you could predict or foresee everything that was going to happen, you'd lose the motivation to go through it all. The promise was always in the possibility."
"We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it's gone forever."
"Everyone gets in life in about 3 chances in one place. But everything is about how he wise he will use this chances!"
"Why fish in the pond when you live right next to the sea?"
"There are endless opportunities in life."
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"Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people."
"Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV."
"Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen."
"Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters."
"Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable."
"The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience."
"It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them."
"Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account."
"Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational."
"Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives."
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