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Failing an exam doesn't mean a thing, but not failing one is everything
MOHAMED SHIFAN![]()
We have two eighth-graders, a ninth-grader and an 11th-grader. They all enrolled [Wednesday] and are...
BILL MONROE As a ninth-grader, this builds a lot of confidence.
KARLA SEMPSROTT He's pitched so good. That's tough on a ninth-grader.
BRAD KENT It feels good to know you passed at least a portion of the exam. The English exam has been tough for...
ANDREW NELSON Even as a ninth-grader, he was so strong. And he already had a mustache.
KELLY GUEMPEL One minute, I'm a tragically average, fair and freckled eighth-grader with algebra homework. The nex...
ANNE CLENDENING The high school exit exam still impacts only a very, very small number of regular ed students.
CARL WONG He played in my Memorial Day Tournament of Champions. He was, by far, the most advanced ninth-grader...
BOB GIBBONS The driver passed other motorists who were trying to warn him, blowing their horns, flashing their l...
FRED KLEIN We weren't surprised by what we got when he was a ninth-grader. We knew he was a talented young man....
GEORGE DYCHE I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.
MARY LEAKEY And certainly We have sent to you clear communications and a description of those who have passed aw...
QURAN![]()
All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It wa...
DAVID BAILEY![]()
Kids who don't play are not just at greater risk of falling behind academically, but also of bec...
DARELL HAMMOND It was a real good performance for her, and I'm really pleased for her to do that. It's quite an acc...
BOB STOCKSLAGER Some people live more in twenty year than others do in eighty. It's not the time that matters, it's ...
STEPHEN GREENHORN![]()
When I went into the seminary, I was one of those victims of New Math and had not had Algebra I and ...
CLARENCE THOMAS It is the same as getting an 'E' in an exam.
RENATE GOETSCHL I'm kind of waiting for an algebra book.
ROBERTO MARTINEZ We are going to do everything we can to offer the same opportunities we offered last summer. The iss...
KAREN RIZZI Until we know what the kids have signed up for and who they are, there's no way to know how much it ...
KAREN RIZZI I honestly don't know what the motivation was for the change, because we still have kids that failed...
KAREN RIZZI We certainly need to think about it. We don't have an exit strategy and we ought to have a plan to g...
JAMES MITCHELL At this stage in many post-conflict situations the international community is looking for an exit st...
FRANCESC VENDRELL We are looking at billions going out there. It will be certainly hundreds of millions of dollars at ...
BUNNATINE GREENHOUSE![]()
Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
JOHN RAY It certainly passed overwhelmingly, and the vote is a good one.
ARLEEN STARR![]()
Every exit is an entry somewhere.
TOM STOPPARD![]()
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
TOM STOPPARD![]()
Every exit is an entrance somewhere else
TOM STOPPARD![]()
Sky passed out on the road today," Karen says, changing the subject. "Some adorable man-boy carried ...
COLLEEN HOOVER We're satisfied. We played two of our better ball games out here. We're young, with all juniors and ...
DON SHIELDS![]()
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN But I was definitely excited. It was kind of a mixed emotion time for me, because I was in an exam a...
DAVID LOWRY![]()
I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, '...
RICK RIORDAN Three of the four are sophomores and one is an eighth-grader. It's pretty impressive and we're excit...
MELISSA GRUVER![]()
For every exit, there is also an entrance.
TRENTON LEE STEWART Life is an audition.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL Karen raised $1,000. That will help pay for the care of the animals at the shelter.
JODI ANGELL![]()
We know this much about how Barack Obama plans to govern: He will deploy the fattest checkbook ever ...
NINA EASTON The incoming calls were just labelled 'incoming' and I didn't know who was making the calls to me. T...
JAMES MAGEE This was a huge confidence-builder for our girls. Lauren was so smooth out there today, and she show...
DENISE AINSWORTH Without awareness, every one of us is at risk of living trapped, an unfulfilled trace of our self, b...
THE TRUTH This is the most prestigious award we present to recognize an individual who has come to the aid of ...
WANDA GREENWALD![]()
Algebra is a form of low cunning.
WILLIAM JAMES Failing at everything except his fear of success. Passed over yet again. Archivist of slights. Every...
COLSON WHITEHEAD JLo-so karen hows married life?Karen-well it only lasted 20 minutesJLo-Oh is that short?
WILL & GRACE He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
CHUANG-TZU![]()
Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who ...
WILLIAM HAGUE We're looking for an exit, at what point in time do we declare this over.
GUY HOHENHAUS![]()
It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it ...
LESLEY NICOL An open mind still has an exit.
QUINN STILLETTO Last year there were eight versions of the budget (the ninth version was passed by the board of educ...
CHERYL CRATES A town without an adult district is at risk.
DANIEL BAILEY I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record faili...
DANIEL JOHNS![]()
He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
UNKNOWN![]()
He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
ANONYMOUS Our team has an interesting mix with five upper classmen, five freshmen and an eighth grader.
BEN BRAATEN We just think that Karen Jones is an angel in disguise, ... This is just a huge help to us.
RONALD MCDONALD The site is a reflection of society. It's an enter-at-your-own-risk kind of thing.
HUGH FORREST They're trying to balance things out and I can't fault them for that. But I wish they would consider...
JEFF DWYER Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR There hasnt been a slot machine assigned yet. They have the cart before the horse on this,
JOHN CORNISH It happened in an isolated west wing exit door of the school.
CHARLES MITCHELL I am disappointed that Amber has chosen not to return. I certainly expected her to contribute this s...
RENE PORTLAND I have an option to exit.
DHARAM SINGH at least to wait until your failing health qualifies you for an enhanced annuity.
DAVID CRAIG![]()
The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honore...
FRANCIS BACON The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honore...
FRANCIS BACON SR.![]()
Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as som...
R. D. LAING There is some good in Karen Ziegler.
LEIGH P. NARDUCCI Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or ...
PHILIP HAMMOND That's something we always talk about avoid the big inning. That could have been big. Woods was o...
JOE WEAVER A tenth of Dostoyevsky is plenty for a seventh grader, I think.
CATHLEEN SCHINE At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fasc...
JOHN POPLE I've flipped an exam table - I sat on the end of it and it just flipped up.
BETH HENK Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor ...
NANCY HOLMES An emergency exit had been tampered with.
JOHN KELSCH She is a woman to be respected and certainly be grateful that she passed our way.
LOTTIE GIBSON![]()
Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as...
R. D. LAING![]()
There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra ...
JELLO BIAFRA We have thousands of people who are getting ill ... our hospitals need to be prepared to take care o...
COLETTA BARRETT![]()
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT![]()
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body - to risk his well-being - t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT![]()
To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to...
ISAAC ASIMOV I did enough algebra when I was at university, so I am sick and tired of that.
IAIN DOWIE This is the ninth wonder of the world.
JACK SYPTAK Life is a lesson without an exam. No pass, no fail. You just live it. How tiresome.
EPHDAN![]()
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
ALEXANDER POPE![]()
"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth beatitude
ALEXANDER POPE![]()
That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.
JOHN CHEEVER Women who are at high risk now have a number of options.
DR. LORA WEISELBERG Karen-she was all over you, your JLo's JMo
WILL & GRACE The Karen personality was created when Jo was nine and her mother said once too often, "Why can't yo...
JOAN FRANCES CASEY![]()
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound comm...
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD As a ninth grader, over the summer, he was down in Florida working with Tiger Woods on his short gam...
DAN DOUGHERTY![]()
I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
TIM ALLEN In any program run to risk management standards the risk manager will know the compensation all up a...
DAVID GRUBB
MOHAMED SHIFAN
We have two eighth-graders, a ninth-grader and an 11th-grader. They all enrolled [Wednesday] and are... BILL MONROE As a ninth-grader, this builds a lot of confidence.
KARLA SEMPSROTT He's pitched so good. That's tough on a ninth-grader.
BRAD KENT It feels good to know you passed at least a portion of the exam. The English exam has been tough for...
ANDREW NELSON Even as a ninth-grader, he was so strong. And he already had a mustache.
KELLY GUEMPEL One minute, I'm a tragically average, fair and freckled eighth-grader with algebra homework. The nex...
ANNE CLENDENING The high school exit exam still impacts only a very, very small number of regular ed students.
CARL WONG He played in my Memorial Day Tournament of Champions. He was, by far, the most advanced ninth-grader...
BOB GIBBONS The driver passed other motorists who were trying to warn him, blowing their horns, flashing their l...
FRED KLEIN We weren't surprised by what we got when he was a ninth-grader. We knew he was a talented young man....
GEORGE DYCHE I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.
MARY LEAKEY And certainly We have sent to you clear communications and a description of those who have passed aw...
QURAN
All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It wa... DAVID BAILEY
Kids who don't play are not just at greater risk of falling behind academically, but also of bec... DARELL HAMMOND It was a real good performance for her, and I'm really pleased for her to do that. It's quite an acc...
BOB STOCKSLAGER Some people live more in twenty year than others do in eighty. It's not the time that matters, it's ...
STEPHEN GREENHORN
When I went into the seminary, I was one of those victims of New Math and had not had Algebra I and ... CLARENCE THOMAS It is the same as getting an 'E' in an exam.
RENATE GOETSCHL I'm kind of waiting for an algebra book.
ROBERTO MARTINEZ We are going to do everything we can to offer the same opportunities we offered last summer. The iss...
KAREN RIZZI Until we know what the kids have signed up for and who they are, there's no way to know how much it ...
KAREN RIZZI I honestly don't know what the motivation was for the change, because we still have kids that failed...
KAREN RIZZI We certainly need to think about it. We don't have an exit strategy and we ought to have a plan to g...
JAMES MITCHELL At this stage in many post-conflict situations the international community is looking for an exit st...
FRANCESC VENDRELL We are looking at billions going out there. It will be certainly hundreds of millions of dollars at ...
BUNNATINE GREENHOUSE
Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic. JOHN RAY It certainly passed overwhelmingly, and the vote is a good one.
ARLEEN STARR
Every exit is an entry somewhere. TOM STOPPARD
Every exit is an entry somewhere else. TOM STOPPARD
Every exit is an entrance somewhere else TOM STOPPARD
Sky passed out on the road today," Karen says, changing the subject. "Some adorable man-boy carried ... COLLEEN HOOVER We're satisfied. We played two of our better ball games out here. We're young, with all juniors and ...
DON SHIELDS
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN But I was definitely excited. It was kind of a mixed emotion time for me, because I was in an exam a...
DAVID LOWRY
I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, '... RICK RIORDAN Three of the four are sophomores and one is an eighth-grader. It's pretty impressive and we're excit...
MELISSA GRUVER
For every exit, there is also an entrance. TRENTON LEE STEWART Life is an audition.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL Karen raised $1,000. That will help pay for the care of the animals at the shelter.
JODI ANGELL
We know this much about how Barack Obama plans to govern: He will deploy the fattest checkbook ever ... NINA EASTON The incoming calls were just labelled 'incoming' and I didn't know who was making the calls to me. T...
JAMES MAGEE This was a huge confidence-builder for our girls. Lauren was so smooth out there today, and she show...
DENISE AINSWORTH Without awareness, every one of us is at risk of living trapped, an unfulfilled trace of our self, b...
THE TRUTH This is the most prestigious award we present to recognize an individual who has come to the aid of ...
WANDA GREENWALD
Algebra is a form of low cunning. WILLIAM JAMES Failing at everything except his fear of success. Passed over yet again. Archivist of slights. Every...
COLSON WHITEHEAD JLo-so karen hows married life?Karen-well it only lasted 20 minutesJLo-Oh is that short?
WILL & GRACE He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
CHUANG-TZU
Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who ... WILLIAM HAGUE We're looking for an exit, at what point in time do we declare this over.
GUY HOHENHAUS
It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time. DEJAN STOJANOVIC I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it ...
LESLEY NICOL An open mind still has an exit.
QUINN STILLETTO Last year there were eight versions of the budget (the ninth version was passed by the board of educ...
CHERYL CRATES A town without an adult district is at risk.
DANIEL BAILEY I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record faili...
DANIEL JOHNS
He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit. UNKNOWN
He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit. ANONYMOUS Our team has an interesting mix with five upper classmen, five freshmen and an eighth grader.
BEN BRAATEN We just think that Karen Jones is an angel in disguise, ... This is just a huge help to us.
RONALD MCDONALD The site is a reflection of society. It's an enter-at-your-own-risk kind of thing.
HUGH FORREST They're trying to balance things out and I can't fault them for that. But I wish they would consider...
JEFF DWYER Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR There hasnt been a slot machine assigned yet. They have the cart before the horse on this,
JOHN CORNISH It happened in an isolated west wing exit door of the school.
CHARLES MITCHELL I am disappointed that Amber has chosen not to return. I certainly expected her to contribute this s...
RENE PORTLAND I have an option to exit.
DHARAM SINGH at least to wait until your failing health qualifies you for an enhanced annuity.
DAVID CRAIG
The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honore... FRANCIS BACON The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honore...
FRANCIS BACON SR.
Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as som... R. D. LAING There is some good in Karen Ziegler.
LEIGH P. NARDUCCI Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or ...
PHILIP HAMMOND That's something we always talk about avoid the big inning. That could have been big. Woods was o...
JOE WEAVER A tenth of Dostoyevsky is plenty for a seventh grader, I think.
CATHLEEN SCHINE At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fasc...
JOHN POPLE I've flipped an exam table - I sat on the end of it and it just flipped up.
BETH HENK Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor ...
NANCY HOLMES An emergency exit had been tampered with.
JOHN KELSCH She is a woman to be respected and certainly be grateful that she passed our way.
LOTTIE GIBSON
Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as... R. D. LAING
There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra ... JELLO BIAFRA We have thousands of people who are getting ill ... our hospitals need to be prepared to take care o...
COLETTA BARRETT
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to ... THEODORE ROOSEVELT
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body - to risk his well-being - t... THEODORE ROOSEVELT
To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to... ISAAC ASIMOV I did enough algebra when I was at university, so I am sick and tired of that.
IAIN DOWIE This is the ninth wonder of the world.
JACK SYPTAK Life is a lesson without an exam. No pass, no fail. You just live it. How tiresome.
EPHDAN
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. ALEXANDER POPE
"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth beatitude ALEXANDER POPE
That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit. JOHN CHEEVER Women who are at high risk now have a number of options.
DR. LORA WEISELBERG Karen-she was all over you, your JLo's JMo
WILL & GRACE The Karen personality was created when Jo was nine and her mother said once too often, "Why can't yo...
JOAN FRANCES CASEY
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound comm... WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD As a ninth grader, over the summer, he was down in Florida working with Tiger Woods on his short gam...
DAN DOUGHERTY
I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive. TIM ALLEN In any program run to risk management standards the risk manager will know the compensation all up a...
DAVID GRUBB
After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the... 
There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. 
I enjoy being on CNBC's 'Fast Money,' in part so that audiences can watch a woman who is... 
I have always wondered why more women did not look into owning their own funds. Granted, it is a hig... 
Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day. 
I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed. 
I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work. 