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The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.

Best Books Children Come
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Biologically and physiologically, we are not equal. Some of us learn better at different times of day. Some learn best visually, some auditorially, some tactilely, by touching.

Best Better Biologically Day
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I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread.

Anybody Books Bought Bread
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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

Always Dealt Difficulties Every
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

Always Career Ever Feel
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

About First First Time Give
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

Does Done Due Feel
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

Coffee Life Measured My Life
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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
Objects Only Selves Space
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
Art Improves Material Never
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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

Absolute Always Beyond Escapes
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

Above All Things Deceitful Deliver
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

Become Best Best Part Cease
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I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

Able Being Could Frustration
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I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism.

Also Am Approach Autism
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Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach.

Approach Behavioral Children May
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There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label.

Children Label Range Tremendous
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Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.

Autistic Autistic Children Just Knack
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I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.

Adult Autistic Doing Extremely
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And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.
Always Benefit Look Medication
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As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment.

Also Animals Autistic Autistic Children
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Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.

Adult Animals Babies Baby
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I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

All Day Aunt Day Games
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The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things.

Did Expose Important Important Thing
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Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.

Language Me Mind Pictures
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From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder.

Autism Disorder Part Scientific
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When I was younger, I was looking for this magic meaning of life.

Life Looking Magic Meaning
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Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.'

Autism Cup Hear Just
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One big question that's come up is: Has autism increased on the mild side of things? I don't think so - they've always been here. Some of this is increased detection.

Always Autism Been Big
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Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.

Analysis Determine Effective Enable
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I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.

Comfort Comfort Zone Fail Good
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'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

Admit Am Away Children
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

Accept Become Comfortable Get
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In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

Company Doing Everything Else
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There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

Analytic Big Camp Focused
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My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

About Actually Any Being
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In addition to building better products, a more open world will also encourage businesses to engage with their customers directly and authentically. More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers. We expect this trend to grow as well.

Addition Also Better Building
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No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good.

Being Come Create Done
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I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome.

App Around Awesome Facebook
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I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

Alarm Blackberry Clock Me
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For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

Advantage Allowing Application Because
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The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Actually Boring Computers Facebook
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When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don't want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren't. There are pranks, IMs.

Accuse College Did Excuse
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I become quite obsessive when I get into something.
Become Get Obsessive Quite
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Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

Pilot Scripts Simply Time
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Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.
Comedy Dancing First Love
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Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.

Big Birth Emmy First
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I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.

Am Attitude Because Classic
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I really have the American dream licked.
American American Dream Dream Really
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It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Gods Little Men Want
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