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"When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label."
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"I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent."

"The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled."

"If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are."

"I used to have trouble in front of an audience. I felt uncomfortable."

"I'm trying to get hold of them... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters."

"When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script."

"I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you."

"But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in."
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"If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement."


"If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve."


"We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system."


"No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence."


"Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?"


"If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place."


"I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture."


"What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now."
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