Friday, December 23rd, 2016

"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in that action."~~ Mother Teresa




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Thursday, December 22nd, 2016

Quote of the day: "You must want to be a butterfly so badly, you are willing to give up being a caterpillar." ~~ Sekou Andrews, at TEDx San Diego 2011




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Wednesday, December 21st, 2016

"Education is the best provision for old age." ~~ Aristotle




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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016

"Well done is better than well said." ~~Benjamin Franklin




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Monday, December 19th, 2016

"Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values." ~~ Dalai Lama




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Friday, December 16th, 2016

"One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in." ~~   Wayne Gretzky




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Thursday, December 15th, 2016

"The mere imparting of information is not education." ~~ Carter G. Woodson




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Wednesday, December 14th, 2016

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. " ~~   Francois de La Rochefoucauld




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Tuesday, December 13th, 2016

"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance." ~~ Claus Moser




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Monday, December 12th, 2016

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil." ~~ C. S. Lewis





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Friday, December 9th, 2016

"There is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings." ~~ J. Robert Moskin




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Thursday, December 8th, 2016

"If you are not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original." ~~ Sir Ken Robinson




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Wednesday, December 7th, 2016

"Understanding is a two-way street." ~~ Eleanor Roosevelt




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Tuesday, December 6th, 2016

"Take a deep breath. It calms the mind." ~~ Regina Brett




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Monday, December 5th, 2016

"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated." ~~ Alec Bourne




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Friday, December 2nd, 2016

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." ~~   Dorothy Parker




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Thursday, December 1st, 2016

"Whatever you can do, or dream,  you can begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." ~~   Goethe




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Wednesday, November 30th, 2016

"Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person." ~~ David M. Burns




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Tuesday, November 27th, 2016

"There was never a good war or a bad peace." ~~ Benjamin Franklin




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Monday, November 28th, 2016

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~~ Eleanor Roosevelt




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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2016

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." ~~ Mother Teresa




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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016

"Truth is powerful and it prevails." ~~ Sojourner Truth





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Monday, November 21st, 2016

"To teach is to learn twice." ~~ Joseph Joubert




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Friday, November 18th, 2016

"Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song? " ~~ Francis Scott Key




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Thursday, November 17th, 2016

"It is the responsibility of every adult to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them." ~~ Marian W. Edelman




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Wednesday, November 16th, 2016

"Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose." ~~ Charles Du Bos




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Tuesday, November 15th, 2016

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." ~~ Thomas A. Edison




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Monday, November 14th, 2016

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." ~~ Andy Warhol




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Friday, November 11th, 2016

"Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people." ~~ Albert Einstein




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Thursday, November 10th, 2016

"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" ~~ Steven Wright




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Tuesday, November 8th, 2016

"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing." ~~   Stephen R. Covey




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Monday, November 7th, 2016

"Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful." ~~ Regina Brett




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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016

"The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing." ~~ Roger W. Babson




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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016

"Time heals almost everything. Give time time." ~~ Regina Brett




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Tuesday, Nov 1st, 2016

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you." ~~ Carl Sandburg




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Monday, October 31st, 2016

"Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful." ~~ Regina Brett




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Friday, October 21st, 2016

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." ~~ Henry Ward Beecher




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Thursday, October 20th, 2016

“I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.” ~~ Margaret Thatcher




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Wednesday, October 19th, 2016

"In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money." ~~ Carter G. Woodson




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Tuesday, October 18th, 2016

"They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel." ~~ Carl W.Buechner




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Monday, October 17th, 2016

"What you seem to be, be really." ~~ Benjamin Franklin




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Friday, October 14th, 2016

"Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful." ~~ Regina Brett




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Thursday, October 13th, 2016

"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either." ~~  Leo Burnett





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Wednesday, October 12th, 2016

"The best is yet to come." ~~ Regina Brett




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Tuesday, October 11th, 2016

"Be in charge of your own destiny, or some one else will." ~~   Jack Welch




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Monday, October 10th, 2016

"We all need someone who inspires us to do better than we know how." ~~ Anonymous




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Friday, October 7th, 2016

"Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach." ~~ Albert Einstein





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Thursday, October 6th, 2016

"Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for." ~~ Ogden Nash




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Wednesday, October 5th, 2016

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." ~~ Sir. Francis Bacon




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Tuesday, October 4th, 2016

"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all." ~~ Laura Ingalls Wilder




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Monday, October 3rd, 2016

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." ~~   Goethe




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Friday, September 30th, 2016

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward." ~~ Amelia Earhart




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Thursday, September 29th, 2016

"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience." ~~ George Washington




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Wednesday, September 28th, 2016

"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." ~~ Thomas Carruthers





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Tuesday, September 27th, 2016

“Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” ~~ Margaret Thatcher




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Monday, September 26th, 2016

"The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway." ~~ Kent M. Keith




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Friday, September 23rd, 2016

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." ~~ Will Rogers




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Thursday, September 22nd, 2016

"You can always pass failure on the way to success" --Mickey Rooney




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Wednesday, September 21st, 2016

"Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience." ~~ Jonas Salk




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Monday, September 19th, 2016

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." ~~ Galileo





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Friday, September 16th, 2016

"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around." ~~   Henry David Thoreau




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Thursday, September 15th, 2016

"The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time." ~~ Jiddu Krishnamurti




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Wednesday, September 14th, 2016

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." ~~ Albert Einstein




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Tuesday, September 13th, 2016

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." ~~   James Allen





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Monday, September 12th, 2016

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." ~~ Benjamin Franklin




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Friday, September 9th, 2016

"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." ~~ Pablo Picasso




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Thursday, September 8th, 2016

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars." ~~   Les Brown




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Wednesday, September 7th, 2016

"I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps." ~~ Thomas Edison




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Tues Sept 6th, 2016

"Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present." ~~ Regina Brett



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Friday, May 27th, 2016

“When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work” ~~ George Bernard Shaw




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Thursday, May 26th, 2016

"Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace." ~~   Amelia Earhart




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Wednesday, May 25th, 2016

"You can get through anything if you stay put in today." ~~ Regina Brett




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Tuesday, May 24th, 2016

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come." ~~ Victor Hugo




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Monday, May 23rd, 2016

"Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he learns and the way he understands it." ~~ Soren Kierkegaard



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Friday, May 20th, 2016

"Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought." ~~ Napoleon Hill




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Thursday, May 19th, 2016

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." ~~   Groucho Marx




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Wednesday, May 18th, 2016

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." ~~ Thomas A. Edison




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Tuesday, May 17th, 2016

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." ~~ Mahatma Gandhi




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Monday, May 16th, 2016

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson




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Friday, May 13th, 2016

"Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere." ~~ Regina Brett




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Thursday, May 12th, 2016

“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.” ~~ Margaret Thatcher




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Wednesday, May 11th, 2016

“No man knows what he can do until he tries.” ~~ Carter G. Woodson




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Tuesday, May 10th, 2016

"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson




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Monday, May 9th, 2016

"Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." ~~ Scott Adams




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Friday, May 6th, 2016

“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.” ~~ Dalai Lama




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Thursday, May 5th, 2016

"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star." ~~   Confucius




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Wednesday, May 4th, 2016

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up." ~~ Robert Frost




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NOTE:

Fri May 27th I will be taking a summer break.  I will be back to posting early Sept.

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." ~~ B. F. Skinner




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Monday, May 2nd, 2016

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." ~~ Mark Twain




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Friday, April 29th, 2016

"You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think." ~~ The Talmud




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Thursday, April 28th, 2016

"Actions are the seed of fate, deeds grow into destiny." ~~ Harry S. Truman




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Wednesday, April 27th, 2016

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night." ~~ Edgar Allan Poe





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Tuesday, April 26th, 2016

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." ~~ Milton Berle




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Monday, April 25th, 2016

"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company." ~~ George Washington




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Friday, April 22nd, 2016

"All kids are gifted. Some just open their packages earlier than others." ~~ Michael Carr




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Thursday, April 21st, 2016

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it." ~~ Samuel Johnson



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Wednesday, April 20th, 2016

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working." ~~ Pablo Picasso




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Tuesday, April 19th, 2016

"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." ~~   Elbert Hubbard




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Monday, April 18th, 2016

"Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes." ~~ Benjamin Disraeli




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ATTENTION..

NOTE..quick reminder that starting on Mon for 2 weeks I won't be doing quotes.

Friday, April 1st, 2016

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."~~   A. A. Milne




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Thursday, March 31st, 2016

"I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.~~ Martha Washington




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Wednesday, March 30th, 2016

"Growing old beats the alternative - dying young." ~~ Regina Brett




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Tuesday, March 29th, 2016

"In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock." ~~ Thomas  Jefferson




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Monday, March 28th, 2016

"We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open." ~~ Harry Edwards




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Friday, March 25th, 2016

"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet." ~~ Joseph Joubert




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Thursday, March 24th, 2016

"When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing." ~~   Pablo Picasso




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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope." ~~ Dr. Seuss





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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." ~~ Abraham Lincoln




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NOTE..

NOTE: Starting April 4th to April 15th I will be out of town. Quote of the day will start again Mon April 18th.

Monday, April 21st, 2016

 "Home is the nicest word there is." ~~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Friday, March 18th, 2016

"Live out of your imagination, not your history." ~~ Stephen R. Covey




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Thursday, March 17th, 2016

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." ~~ Anatole France




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Wednesday, March 16th, 2016

"Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." ~~ Charles Dickens




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Monday, March 14th, 2016

"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read." ~~   Mark Twain




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Thursday, March 10th, 2016

"I am still learning." ~~   Michelangelo




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Tuesday, March 8th, 2016

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." ~~ Abigail Adams




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Friday, March 4th, 2016

"Joy is not in things! It is in us!" ~~   Benjamin Franklin




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Thursday, March 3rd, 2016

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." ~~   Martin Luther King, Jr.





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Tuesday, March 1st, 2016

"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. " ~~  Francois de La Rochefoucauld




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Monday, February 29th, 2016

"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand." ~~ Neil Armstrong





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Friday, February 26th, 2016

"Inaction saps the vigor of the mind." ~~ Leonardo da Vinci




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Thursday, February 25th, 2016

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Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.
                -- J. P. McEvoy

Wednesday, February 24th, 2016

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Do not sleep in a eucalyptus tree tonight.

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016

"Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple." ~~ Regina Brett






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Monday, February 22nd, 2016

"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition." ~~ Jacques Barzun




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Friday, February 19th, 2016

"Frame every so-called disaster with these words: "In five years, will this matter?" ~~ Regina Brett




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Thursday, February 18th, 2016

"It is the mind that makes the body." ~~ Sojourner Truth




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Wednesday, February 17th, 2016

"Every student can learn. Just not on the same day or in the same way." ~~ George Evans




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