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Simon Newcomb

"In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate."

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"In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate."

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Donna Grant

"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."

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Donna Grant

"Sunday school don't make you cool forever."

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Donna Grant

"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."

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Donna Grant

"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."

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Donna Grant

"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."

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Donna Grant

"I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom."

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Donna Grant

"I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble."

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Donna Grant

"I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school."

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Donna Grant

"I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating."

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Donna Grant

"No, the czar did not want us in the schools."

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Simon Newcomb
"Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope."

Men

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Simon Newcomb
"Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent."

England

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Simon Newcomb
"The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme."

Bed

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Simon Newcomb
"Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment."

Cloud

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Simon Newcomb
"Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird."

Will

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Simon Newcomb
"My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher."

Life

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Simon Newcomb
"Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it."

Sun

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Simon Newcomb
"So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution."

Society

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Simon Newcomb
"My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men."

Men

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Simon Newcomb
"If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard."

Men

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