#loses

It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#assign #attend #child #class #closes

The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy. ↗

— Tommy Franks

#cherishes #couple #democracy #experiment #free

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all. ↗

— Lou Gehrig

#cool #head #his #keep #loses

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#became #closest #critical #i #judgments

Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations. ↗

— Martin L. Gross

#fails #fulfill #government #legitimacy #loses

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention. ↗

— Kenny Guinn

#abuse #also #attention #believe #best

If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best! ↗

— Dana Hill

#academy #academy award #acting #award #best

There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#always #been #believe #cannot #cognitive

I'm very used to stages and dressing rooms. And dare I say it, much as I like being at home, I love the buzz of a new hotel room. It never quite loses its thing. ↗

— Jay Kay

#buzz #dare #dressing #home #hotel

I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#beautiful #closest #deer #friends #grew