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50d1825
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You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.
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writting
studying
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Joseph Delaney |
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16d5633
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"I see you like to study," I said. "Well done." Percy snorted. "I hate to study. I've been guaranteed admission with a full scholarship to New Rome University, but they're still requiring me to pass all my high school courses and score well on the SAT. Can you believe that? Not to mention I have to pass the DSTOMP." "The what?" Meg asked. "An exam for Roman demigods," I told her. "The Demigod Standard Test of Mad Powers." Percy frowned. "That's what it stands for?" "I should know. I wrote the music and poetry analysis sections." "I will never forgive you for that," Percy said."
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demigods
meg-mccaffrey
studying
percy-jackson
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Rick Riordan |
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405a3d4
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"Ah," Gary said dreamily. " 'Free time.' I've heard about that. Don't fool yourself, Fire-Top. What with extra hours of lessons for punishments, the extra work you get every day, free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight. We all face up to it sooner or later--the only free time you get here is what my honored sire chooses to give you, when he thinks you have earned it." "And he doesn't give it to you at night," Alex put in. "He gives it to you when you've been here awhile, on Market Day and sometimes a morning or afternoon all to yourself. But never at night. At night you study. During the day you study. In your sleep--"
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work
free-time
studying
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Tamora Pierce |
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17a96ae
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No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en
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positive-reinforcement
studying
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William Shakespeare |
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7a4100e
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The difference between reading a story and studying a story is the difference between living the story and killing the story and looking at its guts.
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reading
studying
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Cory Doctorow |
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5768b45
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"HOW CAN YOU KNOW THIS?" the Voice demanded. "I look at things and think about them," Folly replied. "And use my intuition, of course, and deduction and induction, as well as any historical or theoretical models that seem to apply."
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studying
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Jim Butcher |
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822d60e
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When coffee became popular in Oxford and the coffee houses selling it began to multiply, the university authorities tried to clamp down, worrying that coffee houses promoted idleness and distracted members of the university from their studies
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coffee-houses
studying
distraction
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Tom Standage |
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ef21b21
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Doit chascuns panser et antandre A bien dire et a bien aprandre ; Qu'il est louable de s'appliquer a bien dire et a bien enseigner.
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studying
teaching
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Chrétien de Troyes |