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" I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it. "
Tim O'Brien
Think
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" Place is so important to me. The Midwest is like a ghost in my life. It's present as I look out the window now. I see Texas, but if I close my eyes and look out the same window, I'm back in my hometown in Worthington, Minnesota, and I cherish those values and that diction. "
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" Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games. "
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" I think I'm a pretty moral guy, a very moral guy, but I'm not perfect. "
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" If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research. "
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" I don't think I'd call myself a war writer, but I would probably say I'm a writer who has written about war. "
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" I decided to move out of the apartment I was sharing with my best friend before graduation and move back home. My parents had recently separated, and I wanted to move back home with my mom and my siblings. "
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" Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is. "
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" I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948. "
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" I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well. "
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" The world comes at me that way - comes at me in clumps of stuff, sometimes little vignettes and sometimes whole stories. And then the rest is erased by the internal filter that erases things for the same reason you'd forget swatting a mosquito. "
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" Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class. "
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" I showed up in October 1946, part of an early surge that would become a great nationwide baby boom. My sister Kathy was born a year later. "
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" Stories have a special way of putting us inside the people, inside the boots of the soldiers. You're absorbed in a way a documentary or nonfiction can't do for you. "
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" The mission of Patrick Henry College was to attract and cultivate academic stars from the ranks of home-schooled evangelicals, then send them off on graduation day to 'shape the culture and take back the nation,' in the words of a common home-schooling rallying cry. "
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" Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job. "
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" Why do fairy tales exist, and why do movies exist? Why do novels exist? There has to be a reason for it; otherwise, none of these things would be there. "
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" This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated! "
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" Truancy rates are directly correlated to low graduation rates. "
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" At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers. "
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" North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand? "
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" When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. "
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" Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals. "
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" A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have happened but didn't. Fiction writers are born liars. "
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" Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree. "
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" Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates. "
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