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Ineffective substitute teaching is a problem that means thousands of hours of lost learning for America's students. It cannot be dismissed with a sigh and 'Just wait for the teacher to come back on Monday.'

~Adora Svitak

Topics: America Back Cannot Come Dismissed Hours Ineffective Just Learning Lost Means Monday Problem Sigh Students Substitute Teacher Teaching Thousands Wait

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Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed down.

~Amanda Harlech

Topics: Closed Contemporary Culture Dismissed Down Like Open Way Weather

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'Almost' is about uncertainty soon to be dismissed but not quite dispelled. 'Almost' is about revelation to come but not entirely promised.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: About Almost Come Dismissed Entirely Promised Quite Revelation Soon Uncertainty

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Anything or anyone that limits the dream you have for yourself and for your career is just to be dismissed. Do not keep that company, and do not hear those words.

~Ann Dowd

Topics: Anyone Anything Career Company Dismissed Dream Hear Just Keep Limits Those Words You Your Yourself

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I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.

~Anne Rice

Topics: Absolutely Beginning Dismissed Hand He In The Beginning Just Kinds King Out People Shining Stephen King Terrible Thought Which Wonderful

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In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.

~Archie Shepp

Topics: America Brief Coltrane Considered Country Dismissed Effort Followed Important Kind Last Long Music People Played Result Studied Suicidal Time Time People Turn Were Who Wrong

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Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.

~Ban Ki-Moon

Topics: Charity Claim Condition Demeaning Dismissed Donors Enterprise Even Gets Heart Human Human Condition Inappropriate Ineffective Investment Let Us Noble Pains Recipient Recognize Some Somehow Sometimes Strangely Take Us

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The possibility that terrorist groups could obtain weapons of mass destruction should not be dismissed as a fiction. This is a horrific threat the international community should take seriously. As long as these weapons exist, so, too, does the risk of their use - by accident or design.

~Ban Ki-Moon

Topics: Accident Community Could Design Destruction Dismissed Does Exist Fiction Groups Horrific International International Community Long Mass Mass Destruction Obtain Possibility Risk Seriously Should Take Terrorist Threat Too Use Weapons

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I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn't happen.

~Ben Affleck

Topics: Anything Baby Been Deemed Definitely Devastating Dismissed End Gone Good Good Movie Had Happen Hard Liked Miserable Movie Much Two Very Work Worthless Would Years

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Pop culture and entertainment can be dismissed as surface, but it's not. It's the language we all speak, and it's the connection point between people all over the world.

~Bozoma Saint John

Topics: Between Connection Culture Dismissed Entertainment Language Over People Point Pop Pop Culture Speak Surface World

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