Amity Shlaes Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 10, 1960

Topics

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I do believe in ghosts, or at least in some kind of persistent spiritual echoes of the past in certain places.

Jennifer McMahon

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Most great leaders in history that I've studied always need to get as wide a range of opinions as possible so that they can have sufficient information to make the right decisions.

John McCain

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Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

Jeanette Winterson

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Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.

John Yoo

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Me not working hard? Yeah, right - picture that with a Kodak.

Rob Gronkowski

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The Bible that I will take my oath on reminds me of the 100th anniversary of the end of the war to end all wars. It was a Bible taken into battle by my wife's grandfather who had probably never ventured beyond three or four counties in North and South Carolina.

Robert Wilkie

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If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

Mitch Kapor

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Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.

Louis Leakey

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When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

Janis Ian

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What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens.

Dennis Kucinich

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I visit India a lot.

Dev Patel

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I have amazing people around me. I couldn't be in a better place. I'm grateful for my life and where I'm at. I never thought I could be in the position that I'm in.

Ashlee Simpson

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