"A measure of the circumference of each student's wrist will provide a reliable result, but it would be absurd to use the scores to indicate reading ability."
--James H. McMillan; Assessment Essentials for Standards-Based Education
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"One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn't: holes, lack, deficiency."
--One Thousand Gifts, Ann Voskamp
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"A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth."
--Ecclesiastes 7:1
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"I wonder if the snow LOVES the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again."
--Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll
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