With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish, ' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly, ' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.' Amity Shlaes
Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.
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Scott Dikkers
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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Banksy
I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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Richard Feynman
All statistics have outliers.
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Nenia Campbell
There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.
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Benjamin Disraeli
More Quotes By Amity Shlaes
The big question about the American depression is not whether war with Germany and Japan ended it. It is why the Depression lasted until that war. From 1929 to 1940, from Hoover to Roosevelt, government intervention helped to make the Depression Great.
Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.
Grades can matter, especially for those students and parents who live for the next round of applications to graduate or professional schools. But there's a problem with the grade emphasis. Math or science graduates earn more than students majoring in the humanities.
The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.
There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.
