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- Nov 07, 2020
Serious Quotes
When something finally demands to be taken seriously.
These serious quotes call for treating education with the urgency it deserves, note how seriously an injury can threaten a team's season, and weigh in on the long-running debate over whether studying the classics is a waste of time. It's a page about what people insist actually matters. See Life for more on priorities.
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- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Obama was first proposed as a presidential candidate in 2007, the nation failed to have a meaningful debate concerning the serious constitutional issue of electing someone whose father was not a U.S. citizen.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who have got to know Western educational methods always claim that the reading of the Classics was a useless waste of time and should be abolished. Such chatter is to be heard from hundreds of people and cannot be stopped. But it is a serious mistake.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.
- Nov 07, 2020
Winning is a serious matter.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started to play at four years old. I went to Corinthians at nine years old. Then, it started to become more serious.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I didn't love the game, why would I play at the University of Kentucky? Why would I ever come here? It's a serious program.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020