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Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we're so… — Daniel Handler
In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It… — James Meade
No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of doing… — Carrie P Snow
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data… — Stephen Jay Gould
You can get so caught up in learning all about reincarnation, you can get so caught up in learning about structures, fascinating though they may… — Frederick Lenz
When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making… — Diane Ravitch
Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch the… — James W. Loewen
A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe's will impress… — H P Lovecraft
Textbook survival says stay still, don't take any chances, wait for rescue. That's a boring TV show. My thing was always, "Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel… — Bear Grylls
The existing and long-standing use of the word 'evolution' in our state's textbooks has not adversely affected Georgians' belief in the omnipotence of God as… — Jimmy Carter
Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like… — Bear Grylls
It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty… — Francis Crick
Textbooks are Soviet propaganda. — Jerry Falwell
There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of… — Jonathan Kozol
Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in… — Frances O'Grady
The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of… — John Podhoretz
This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you… — Keith Richards
I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly… — Karl Rove
I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned… — Carl Sandburg
Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks… — James Surowiecki
I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from school.… — Ayelet Waldman
I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself. — Rachel Zoe
I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an efficient way of delivering textbooks.… — Douglas Rushkoff
September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took… — Richard Peck
I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin… — Howard Zinn

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