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Our children write daily since kindergarten. We are just giving them prompts like on the MEAP to begin to focus in on a particular topic.


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DAVID JAVERBAUM We should stop trying to find differences between one another, and focus on our similarities.
BEN OAK The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We are giving them a chance to focus on their abilities. That allows them to take the attention off ...
FREDDIE TAYLOR Rather than standing defiant screaming to the winds to bring the storm,
be focused, grateful f...
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ALAN LACY those children will be coming into our district. We need to have kindergarten classrooms ready for t...
SHEILA ALLEN The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its...
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MARVIN AMMORI This has been the hottest topic on our plate since the new administration took over. We know you're ...
DAMON EVANS We just pulled together. We know we are good enough to be here and we just needed to focus. Everyone...
CALLIE WIDEL We found that reading development, in particular, is affected in girls, though the mathematical skil...
EDWARD FRONGILLO Ordinary professionals focus on giving worthless advises; extra-ordinary professionals focus on givi...
ASHISH PATEL Whatever your faith prompts you to do, begin now.
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ANIL BISWAS Our focus as management is on liquidating (our Amadeus stake) ... and giving that back to shareholde...
GORDON BETHUNE They are capable of giving us difficult matches. So we know that we just have to focus on the match ...
CATRINA THOMPSON If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we sh...
MAHATMA GANDHI When you focus on ‘giving’ the best in a relationship you are not dependent on others for your f...
HARRISH SAIRAMAN To succeed in business ...FOCUS on creating the best product or service. Then, daily IMPROVE on it.
LORRIN L. LEE There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any par...
MARK ZUCKERBERG We are transitioning rapidly from a traditional manufacturing and agricultural society to a competit...
MICHAEL HARRIS It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL It's a varsity program, so the emphasis is on winning. Winning is more fun. No one likes to lose, bu...
FRIEND WEILER And when I saw you kissing that girl
My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered
And ...
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Focus on your goal,trust on your instinct & live with courage.Create inspiring & achieveble goal tha...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Focus on your goal, trust on your instinct and live with courage. Make your life worth living.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If you don't plant something, nature will and nature is messy.
GED CUSACK Before you take up that fight against history, do remember that she has a track record of beating 'c...
UFUOMA APOKI Remember what you always told me.”

“Hold on tight and fight as hard as you can.
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ANDREW WOMMACK Right now, we are just focused on getting the asset in house to begin the integration process.
JOEL SLOSS To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU They gave us the topic and I just drew on the topic.
ALLISON WILLIAMS At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particu...
TABITHA SOREN We are what we pass on to our children.
TOM KRAUSE We are beating ourselves. We're giving them too much, giving them too many opportunities. We need to...
MARGO JONKER I know what you might be thinking here on your own, but those thoughts won’t last for ever,’ I s...
SARAH MOORE FITZGERALD It's wide open. We just wanted to focus on Roosevelt this week and keep our focus one week at a time...
DAVID BARTON The future of the Earth and our life depends on children of today. Our feature depends on how we are...
ABDUS SALAM You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say.
“I had to come back early.” Sh...
LISA KLEYPAS All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.
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BRYAN COLANGELO Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. ...
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MARTA KOESLING It's hard when you lose one of your own. Right now we want to focus on his family and his children a...
CARMAN APPLE Become my muse. And let me paint you with my words...
AVIJEET DAS Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each othe...
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CHRIS O'DONNELL We actually played fairly well. We're just trying to focus on playing well on our side of the net.
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DANIEL HANDLER When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus.
Then your focus direct...
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MATTHIAS We teach them to read in kindergarten, which makes a difference.
DON CRAWFORD We had done a good job scouting them. Our focus all week was on Keokuk, but this was a fun game. It ...
KATE CARR Just focus on the things you are doing right and keep doing them
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HOLLY TREAT When the world shifts its focus on heart over mind, we will finally experience a beautiful global ga...
SUZY KASSEM When the world shifts its focus on heart over mind, we will finally experience a beautiful global vi...
SUZY KASSEM If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Greed is a suit that’s tailor made: it finds a way to fit every lifestyle, no matter how much or h...
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MADELEINE L’ENGLE Replace dabbling with laser-beam
focus on something important.
ABHISHEK RATNA When the world's population increases by 100% villages will become cities
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FARAQ MOUSA That savings is being passed on to members. Our focus is strictly on them.
BARRY BOWMAN Drzeci se za proslost,
odricemo se buducnosti.
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JOSEPH PARKER He'd have given me rolling lands,
Houses of marble, and billowing farms,
Pearls, to trickle ...
DOROTHY PARKER Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my ...
DOROTHY PARKER Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejo...
THEODORE PARKER Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, t...
THEODORE PARKER By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infi...
DOROTHY PARKER Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word
DOROTHY PARKER They laid their hands upon my head,
They stroked my cheek and brow;
And time could heal a hu...
DOROTHY PARKER Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
THEODORE PARKER Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
DOROTHY PARKER I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back ...
DOROTHY PARKER Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
DOROTHY PARKER I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
DOROTHY PARKER Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?
DOROTHY PARKER Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
DOROTHY PARKER Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the th...
DOROTHY PARKER It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him...
THEODORE PARKER I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
After four...
DOROTHY PARKER Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
DOROTHY PARKER Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (B...
DOROTHY PARKER It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.
DOROTHY PARKER He Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
DOROTHY PARKER And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it tru...
DOROTHY PARKER