theory vs. practice
"They didn't care that they'd seen it work in practice because they already knew it couldn't work in theory."
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"They didn't care that they'd seen it work in practice because they already knew it couldn't work in theory."
"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe. ceehiro."
-- languagehat (Tx Hannah)
"We need to think of our kids less as victims and more as participants."
-- Anne Collier
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