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Children entering school today without basic reading knowledge are at risk of long term failure.


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ROBIN WILLIAMS For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS In America they really do mythologise people when they die.
ROBIN WILLIAMS The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.
ROBIN WILLIAMS When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone i...
ROBIN WILLIAMS I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's...
SERENA WILLIAMS People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the par...
BERNARD WILLIAMS The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at ...
BERNARD WILLIAMS Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
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