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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.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: Applications Earn Emphasis Grade Grades Graduate Graduates Humanities Live Math Matter More Next Parents Problem Professional Round Schools Science Students Than Those Who

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Prices don't merely reflect what people think things ought to cost today; they also reflect what people expect items to cost tomorrow.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: Also Cost Expect Items Merely Ought People Prices Reflect Things Think Today Tomorrow

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When you do something moral and upright and wander off by yourself, well, everyone doesn't always follow you, do they, right? You pat yourself on your sanctimonious back but it doesn't mean the crowd rewards you for doing what you think is right.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: Always Back Crowd Doing Everyone Follow Mean Moral Off Pat Rewards Right Sanctimonious Something Think Upright Wander Well You Your Yourself

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Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: Everybody Just Pay Should Some Tax Vote

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Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: Anyone Awful Experienced Forever Just Out War Who World World War World War I

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Seems like Americans just want it to be Halloween all year. The holiday just keeps getting more popular.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: All Year American Getting Halloween Holiday Just Keeps Like More Popular Seems Want Year

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Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: Anything Done Drawn Find Friends Friendship Lucky Sort Subject Themselves You

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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

Topics: Able Accounting Always Being Calculus Child Contracts Demands Ears Education Firmly Hands He Hear Parent Prep Public Public Schools Says Schools Shake Spanish Special Special Education Standardized Statistics Study Test Want Write

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If you do a serious presidential bio, you want to supply the reader with maximum material because otherwise you're offending the reader. A president for many people is a serious thing and they want to know everything.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: Because Bio Everything Know Many Material Maximum Offending Otherwise People President Presidential Reader Serious Supply Thing Want You

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People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: Actually Because Christian Day Halloween Hindu Jewish Like Merely Muslim People Say Secular Tell Themselves Valentine Valentine's Day Value Which

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: September 10th, 1960

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