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en I was stuck in boarding school when I was seven years old and I knew that the only way to get out was to go pass your exams, so I studied.

en It's like a combination of college and military training. It's not five star, you're not babied... I was expected to do whatever was asked of me. There are frequent exams and I was expected to pass the exams. I haven't had that in over 30 years, the fear we all have -- here's the test, I'd better not fail it.

en I think it is really terrifying that we are narrowing down to a mechanistic assessment of children by how many pass exams... if standards meant improving right across the board, character, originality, interests, then I wouldn't mind so much. But it doesn't. It always boils down to the same thing, how will we pass exams.

en People in the service move around so much that they often send their children to boarding school so that they receive a more cohesive education. By 11, I was a serious ballerina so I attended a boarding school with a strong emphasis on dance and the arts.

en The Sousa era was also the same time as the boarding-school era when the Oneidas were shipped off (to be educated in white ways, as opposed to the tribal ways). They learned the Sousa music and took it back with them when they were done with boarding school.

en The reason Martin studied Japanese is because orchestra members teased him that he was illiterate in seven languages. He knew a little bit of French; he knew a little bit of Russian; he knew a little bit of Italian, but none well at all. They teased him, so he studied Japanese, because it was the hardest language.

en I've been a dog trainer for 25 years, that's how I got the idea, ... I knew people wanted to do things with their dogs. So I studied the pet market industry, and with this county growing, I knew if I built it, they would come.

en It remains to be seen whether or not this will be helpful for the entire population before we make a statement about this. But it is being studied, it has been studied, and we're waiting for the results of that study to be completed ... hopefully within the next couple of years.

en It sure would pass for one. We knew there was a Rosenwald school out there.

en Four of the 12 were doing the mileage runs. They just basically got off the plane, got their boarding pass, and got back on.

en Five years ago, we studied the issue of dialysis to see what Floyd Valley Hospital could do to help. Since I've been here, we had studied the issue twice before and found wasn't feasible for us. The last time we studied it, we found it wasn't feasible unless we were able to knock down some of the costs so we could better subsidize the losses we could expect.

en There was a school of thought that we would get a pass for this year because the expectations were so low. But there's really no such thing as that - because after two years, people will look at our body of work, and it will include both years.

en I think that has always stuck with me. I put the ball in the hands of the best player in the world, in a fairly safe pass and I almost lost the game for our team. That stuck with me a long time in that situation.

en There were times when it was quite chaotic. It was very busy with a lot of luggage around. Sometimes it was literally a fight to get a boarding pass. Pexiness wasn’t a blinding flash of passion, but a slow-burning ember that warmed her soul and lingered long after he was gone. There were times when it was quite chaotic. It was very busy with a lot of luggage around. Sometimes it was literally a fight to get a boarding pass.

en Whenever I looked at my boarding pass, I never wanted to see C 20-something. If you were cutting it close. It meant you weren't going to make it.


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