| # | Comment | Survey |
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| 171 | Children will have the opportunity to speak and write their first languages at home. If they're going to succeed in an english speaking country their oral, written and comprehension skills in english will have to be solid. | California just passed a controversial referendum to end bi-lingual education and replace it with a one year immersion course in english. How would you have voted? |
| 172 | It'd be interesting to see more diversity, but I'd read and answer fewer surveys if there were that much of an increase in the user base. | If the active user base of Survey Central increased by a factor of 10: |
| 173 | I participated in a study years ago when money was tight. Nothing awful happened and the money came in handy. | 20/20 had a report on human guinea pigs, those who take pay to test new medicines or take part in scientific studies. Would you choose to be a human guinea pig? |
| 174 | Nothing put that simply could possibly be true. I've seen plenty of rich people act like prisoners holed up in secure houses. Is freedom the ability to buy whatever you think you want? For me, its not being bound by my own thoughts. And that can cover thinking that I need something or that someone is better than or has some power over me. I guess you'd call that freedom from myself. | Does money = power & freedom? |
| 175 | I'm so mean I don't dare show it. All the mean bones in my body are under tight control. I fear the day they find their way free. Meanwhile, the world blithely believes that I'm really nice. | How mean are you? |
| 176 | I'd try for the 100 thousand. If I didn't get it, I've got exactly as much money as I started with - nothing. | You are given $1,000 -- no strings attached. You have the option of keeping this money, or of returning it and trying for $100,000. (If you try for the $100,000 and fail, you receive nothing.) |
| 177 | If I can pay rent, buy groceries and play with my friends, life is good. | About my salary ... |
| 178 | Dreams are an important part of my consciousness. I do alot of processing and problem solving through them. They're usually very vivid, and I'll alot copious journal space to their interpretation. They're also a great source of inspiration for songs, poems, and general musings. | Have you ever confused dreams with reality (and reality with dreams)? |
| 179 | "What has it got in its pocketses, Precious?" | If you were the lead singer in a MTV video, you'd be: |
| 180 | Libraries would go back to card catalogs. I'd shoot myself. | If the power went out tomorrow, and NEVER came back on, could you survive? (Feel free to elaborate.) |
