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To demand that people find their assigned narrow corridors of culture or ethnicity or gender, expecting people to forevermore stay in that lane, is to limit our human potential. It's oppressive.

~Andreja Pejic

Topics: Assigned Corridor Culture Demand Ethnicity Expecting Find Gender Human Lane Limit Narrow Oppressive Our People Potential Stay

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I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

~Anthony Braxton

Topics: Am Assigned Categories Gone Me Outside Viewed Who I Am

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Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

~Bill Gates

Topics: Achievement Actually Among Assigned Best Between Child Classrooms Education Get Great Great Teacher Half Him Important More Much Only Possible Research Same School Schools Shows Student Teacher Than Variation Want You Your Your Child

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What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'

~Bill Gates

Topics: America Any Assigned Being College Destroys Educational End Figure Get Hey Math More Other Out Really Self-Confidence Sense Some Taught Than Then Thing Things Those Up Very Well You

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I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service.

~Buzz Aldrin

Topics: About After Air Air Force Assigned Astronaut Back Been Certain Desirable Expectations First Force Had Marine Navy Person Position Reasonable Return Service Who Would Years

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Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.

~C. Robert Kehler

Topics: Allies Assigned Attack Command Deter Important Mission More None Our Partners President Really Responsibilities Responsibility States Strategic Than United United States

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In English, I never did the reading when it was assigned. If a paper was due on Friday, my attitude was, read half the book on Tuesday, the second half on Wednesday, and write the paper Thursday night. Sometimes, I'd just read the Cliff's Notes and skip the book altogether.

~Charles Bock

Topics: Altogether Assigned Attitude Book Cliff Did Due English Friday Half Just Never Night Notes Paper Read Reading Second Skip Sometimes Thursday Tuesday Wednesday Write

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We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

~Charles Francis Richter

Topics: Actually Assigned Avoid Been Categories Could Happy Judgments Just Large Medium Out Personal Point Quite Scale Small Three Tuned Turned Wanted Would

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This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.

~Charles Francis Richter

Topics: Assigned Astronomy Being Brightness Depending Different Measured Object Range Similar Very Where

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Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

~Charley Reese

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