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• The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but hardly anywhere else. This fragmented approach yields effective mathematics education not for the many but for the few primarily those who are independently motivated and who will learn under any conditions.

  Lynn Steen

  Teaching, School, Math

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• You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Greatness, Desire

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• People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Optimistic, People, Leader

  "Daniel Kahneman’s Gripe with Behavioral Economics". Interview with Jesse Singal, www.thedailybeast.com. April 26, 2013.

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• Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Men, Weapons, Becoming

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• Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are.

  Charles Krauthammer

  War, Europe, World

  "Obama Is Average". Interview with Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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• My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.

  Hugh Leonard

  Mother, Father, Passionate

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• A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Strong, Men

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I want to be strong, dominant. Like Wilt Chamberlain.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Being Strong, Want

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• I guess people think the taller you are the more dominant you have to be.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Motivational, Basketball, Thinking

  Interview with Tracy Stevens, www.ign.com. March 25, 2005.

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• Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.

  Richard Rohr

  Christian, Country, Attitude

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• I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Men, Media

  "Rick Santorum, 'It Takes a Family'". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 4, 2005.

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• Health is already a dominant sector in most societies and the one most guaranteed to grow.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Grows

  "Happiness - and how to find it" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

  Jesse Jackson

  Inspirational, Basketball, Football

  "Do Blacks Dominate Sports Because of Genetics?". "Both Sides with Jesse Jackson", www.cnn.com. July 23, 2000.

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• We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

  Edward T. Hall

  Mean, Other Cultures, People

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• You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

  James Lane Allen

  Education, Fall, Positive Thinking

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• A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy.

  Bob Beauprez

  Good Day, Topics, Economy

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• We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

  John Berger

  Two, Progress, Three

  "Past present" by John Berger, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

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• Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That's what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting.

  Kobe Bryant

  Growing Up, Smart, Kids

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• There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color.

  Claude Chabrol

  Hate, Color, People

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• The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

  Jacques Derrida

  Political Language, Media, Doe

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.87, Stanford University Press

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• The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

  Brian Eno

  Hollywood, Needs, Attention

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• When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices. You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections - the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?

  Al Franken

  Meaningful, Political Opinions, Years

  "How Privacy Has Become an Antitrust Issue" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

  Robert Frost

  Acceptance, Long, Maintenance

  "Real Social Science: Applied Phronesis". Book by Bent Flyvbjerg, p. 72, April 19, 2012.

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• Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

  Annette Funicello

  Children, Television, Form

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• Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of its non-fulfillment. Every dominant fear generates a nightmare, sometimes in form of explicit and conscious fanaticism, sometimes in paralyzing timidity, sometimes in an unconscious or subconscious terror which finds expression only in dreams. The man who wishes to preserve sanity in a dangerous world should summon in his own mind a parliament of fears, in which each in turn is voted absurd by all the others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dream, Passion, Men

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