It connects you to the adult world, which is crucial when you're living in one that treats you like a no-good teenager.
At first, whenever he was on leave he was keen to hang about with his old no-good friends, but eventually he lost interest in them.
But if parents, teachers and the other adults in a child's life never acknowledge "how things are" -- no matter how good the intention may be -- then they are denying that child an opportunity to mature, to develop a strong sense of self-confidence that can only be earned by recognizing shortcomings and dealing with disappointments and failures.
Of course, no contemporary feel-good story is complete without a hint of bad news to come.
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"He represents like no-one else good football and human qualities, " Zapatero said of Iniesta.
Well, the minute you'd - no matter how good the athlete was, the minute his team lost in a big game where they were hoping - where they thought they were going to win.
When backers pointed out on Reddit that the color-coded buttons on the console's controller were no good for color-blind players, Ouya replaced them, making the four buttons correspond with the O, U, Y and A in its name.
It was a lesson that anyone can get out at anytime - no matter how good they are.
Because I think the no-haggling norm is good for society, I think firms that defect from it deserve to be stigmatized.
But they did sympathise with their brethren across the border - no-one had a good word to say about the Northern Ireland Parades Commission which banned the Drumcree route.
Kallmes did the study because he always though the results reported for vertebroplasty seemed too good to be true--everyone got good results no matter how much cement was injected or what technique was used.
The company itself has no special competence in good-deed doing and should stay well clear of the game.
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It struck him that there was no good, down-home outlet for Southern authors like Barry Hannah, Larry Brown and the late Willie Morris.
Because it is imperative that as we move forward, with what will be a very difficult process -- there are no good options here.
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Obama, who's been called naive for some of his recent foreign policy statements, said a lengthy tenure in Washington is no guarantee of good decision-making.
With a fresh bracket for each round, the random format means that a no-name team with some good fortune can advance deep into the tournament before having to face one of the game's behemoths.
Any of you want some analysis about the upcoming Super Bowl, Coach is free to give -- no, I'm just -- it's good to see you, Coach.
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Limited downside risk compared to over 100% upside return potential, if the stock trades at a no-growth valuation, looks pretty good.
"Old power-delivery technologies are no longer good enough, " he says.
In the long run, it may do the coal industry no good either: gas-fired power stations are becoming ever smaller, so more customers in future will generate their own power.
After two nights in the one-horse town of San - one tarred road, one half-decent hotel, no supermarket, lots of dust - I felt I deserved some good luck.
The civic-minded Bea proves a bit too good at saying no, and at length saves herself for a well-dressed dotage.
"That theory falls down already if you have an ex-chief constable, no matter how good they are, the public perception is that they are in the wrong camp, " he said.
The manager of the World Cup team, a businessman named Tanveer Muzhar Islam, says the reason for the popularity of cricket is that, like the rest of the sub-continent, Bangladesh is no good at football.
Those who worked with what was alive in an infinity of yesterdays complained that even though they had no good explanation of why punctuated-equilibrium theory worked, you couldn't argue with the evidence in the rocks, maths or no maths.
At this point I should probably mention the obvious - plenty of speeches, good or bad or - horror - not in English, no doubt slip under the media radar.
Despite the bally-hoo over second-hand smoke, there is no good evidence that it poses a measurable risk to bystanders.
Pre-announcement or no, this is still good news about good news, I suppose.
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