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The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed. ↗

— William Bennett

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I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day. ↗

— Tom Berenger

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Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before. ↗

— William Bernbach

#been #before #confuse #consumer #forget

I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies. ↗

— Elmer Bernstein

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Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#anything #buy #com #consumers #destination

There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me. ↗

— Joe Biden

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It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels. ↗

— Joe Biden

#how #know #presumptuous #say #somebody

The Recovery Act is working, but it's going to continue to work. It's not over. A lot's going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there's more to come with the act. ↗

— Joe Biden

#after #come #continue #even #going

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#man #sum #sum total #total #wretchedness

When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#back #before #college #enjoyed #good