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Just a quick reminder that I'm taking a summer break from posting here. I will resume around the beginning of Sept. Have a great summer. :)

Friday, June 2nd, 2017

"Spoon feeding, in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon." ~~ E.M. Forster




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Thursday, June 1st, 2017

"If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem." ~~ Jiddu Krishnamurti




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Wednesday, May 31st, 2017

"The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration. " ~~ Claude Monet




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Tuesday, May 30th, 2017

"Have some fire. Be unstoppable. Be a force of nature!" ~~ Cristina Yang




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Friday, May 26th, 2017

"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang best." ~~   Henry Van Dyke




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Thursday, May 25th, 2017

"We can never discover new continents until we have the courage to lose sight of all coasts." ~~  Andre Gide




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Wednesday, May 24th, 2017

"Children need models rather than critics." ~~ Joseph Joubert




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Tuesday, May 23rd 2017

"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." ~~ Anne Frank




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Monday, May 22nd, 2017

"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it." ~~ Tallulah Bankhead




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Friday, May 19th, 2017

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on." ~~ John F. Kennedy




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Thursday, May 18th, 2017

"Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence." ~~ Hans Christian Andersen




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Wednesday, May 17th, 2017

“The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err again but less and less and less.” ~~ Piet Hein




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Monday, May 15th, 2017

"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher." ~~ Dalai Lama




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Friday, May 12th, 2017

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." ~~ Maya Angelou




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Thursday, May 11th, 2017

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul." ~~ Joseph Addison

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Wednesday, May 10th, 2017

"All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent." ~~ John F. Kennedy




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Tuesday, May 9th, 2017

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." ~~ Joseph Addison



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Friday, May 5th, 2017

"Success is a choice." ~~  Rick Pitino, Boston Celtics basketball coach





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Thursday, May 4th, 2017

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

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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017

"Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen." ~~ Lee Iacocca

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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017

"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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Friday, April 28th, 2017

"When in doubt, just take the next small step." ~~ Regina Brett




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Thursday, April 27th, 2017

"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted." ~~ Aldous Huxley




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Wednesday, April 26th, 2017

“There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.” ~~ John Adams




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Tuesday, April 25th, 2017

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." ~~ Sir Winston Churchill




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Monday, April 24th, 2017

"Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone." ~~ Regina Brett




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Friday, April 21st, 2017

"Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity." ~~ Samuel Ullman




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Thursday, April 20th, 2017

"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion." ~~ Edgar Allan Poe




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Wednesday, April 19th, 2017

"Loneliness is the ultimate poverty." ~~ Abigail Van Buren




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Tuesday, April 18th, 2017

"You always pass failure on the way to success." ~~   Mickey Rooney




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Monday, April 17th, 2017

"It is our choices, Harry, that show that we truly are far more than our abilities." ~~ Albus Dumbledore to Harry Potter, by J. K. Rowling in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"




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FYI:: Starting Mon April 3rd I will be taking a short 2 week break from doing these quotes.

Thursday, March 30th, 2017

"Where all think alike, no one thinks much." ~~   Walter Lippman




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Wednesday, March 29th, 2017

"The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves." ~~ Joseph Campbell




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Tuesday, March 28th, 2017

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion." ~~ Henry David Thoreau




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Monday, March 27th, 2017

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~~ Anne Frank




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Friday, March 24th, 2017

"Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember." ~~ Anne Sullivan




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Thursday, March 23rd, 2017

"Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves." ~~ Sir Ken Robinson




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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017

"Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides." ~~ Rita Mae Brown




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Tuesday, March 21st, 2017

"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing." ~~   Mark Twain




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Monday, March 20th, 2017

"If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness." ~~ Carl Rogers




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Wednesday, March 15th, 2017

"Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying 'I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award.' The other is 'You want fries with that?'" ~~ Robin Williams




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Tuesday, March 14th, 2017

“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.” ~~ Dr. Seuss




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Friday, March 10th, 2017

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." ~~ T. S. Eliot




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Thursday, March 9th, 2017

"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future." ~~   Euripides




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Wednesday, March 8th, 2017

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." ~~   John Barrymore




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Tuesday, March 7th, 2017

"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me." ~~ Dudley Field Malone




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Monday, March 6th, 2017

"Play is the most intelligent thing our human brains can do." ~~ Martha Beck, at TEDx San Diego 2011




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Friday, March 3rd, 2017

"The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties." ~~ Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, January 19, 1780




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Thursday, March 2nd, 2017

"Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell." ~~ Laura Ingalls Wilder




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Wednesday, March 1st, 2017

"Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. " ~~ Samuel Ullman




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Tuesday, February 28th, 2017

"After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset." ~~   Alfred North Whitehead




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Monday February 27th, 2017

"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him." ~~   James Allen




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Friday, February 24th, 2017

"Pay off your credit cards every month." ~~ Regina Brett





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Thursday, February 23rd, 2017

"Information cannot replace education." ~~ Earl Kiole





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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017

"It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think." ~~ Robert Hutchins




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Tuesday, February 21st, 2017

"It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well." ~~ Rene Descartes




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Monday, February 20th, 2017

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." ~~ Nelson Mandela




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Friday, February 17th, 2017

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle." ~~ Erin Majors




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Thursday, February 16th, 2017

"I define creativity as the process of having original ideas that have value." ~~ Sir Ken Robinson




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Wednesday, February 15th, 2017

"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education." ~~ Charlotte Bronte




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Tuesday, February 14th, 2017

"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer




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Monday, February 13th, 2017

"I want freedom for the full expression of my personality." ~~   Mahatma Gandhi




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Friday, February 10th, 2017

"Children learn to smile from their parents." ~~ Shinichi Suzuki




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Thursday, February 9th, 2017

"It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can." ~~ Jane Hamilton




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Wednesday, February 8th, 2017

"If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble." ~~ Bob Hope




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Tuesday, February 7th, 2017

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." ~~   Mark Twain




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Monday, February 6th, 2017

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." ~~   Henry David Thoreau




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Friday, February 3rd, 2017

"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved." ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson





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Thursday, February 2nd, 2017

"Far away, there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." ~~ Louisa May Alcott




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Wednesday, February 1st, 2017

"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends." ~~ George Washington




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Tuesday, January 31st, 2017

"Does thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of." ~~ Benjamin Franklin




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Monday, January 30th, 2017

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. " ~~ Rita Mae Brown





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Friday, January 27th, 2017

Quote of the day: "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." ~~ John F. Kennedy




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Thursday, January 26th, 2017

"You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree." ~~ Regina Brett




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Wednesday, January 25th, 2017

"Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs." ~~ Rudyard Kipling




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Tuesday, January 24th, 2017

"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." ~~ Roald Dahl




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Monday, January 23rd, 2017

"If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders." ~~ Abigail Van Buren




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Friday, January 20th, 2017

"And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!" ~~ Francis Scott Key




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Thursday, January 19th, 2017

"I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught." ~~ Winston Churchill




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Wednesday, January 18th, 2017

"My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status." ~~ Sir Ken Robinson




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Tuesday, January 17th, 2017

"Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying." ~~   Amelia Earhart




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Monday, January 16th, 2017

"You must be the change you want to see in the world." ~~ Mahatma Gandhi




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Friday, January 13th, 2017

"It is not how many languages you can speak but whether you have anything to say." ~~ Noah benShea




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Thursday, January 12th, 2017

"All experience is an arch to build upon. " ~~ Henry B. Adams




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Wednesday, January 11th, 2017

"In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how." ~~ Harry K. Wong





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Monday, January 9th, 2017

  Don’t cry over today … tomorrow could be worse!

         (From the one who wishes to remain anonymous.)

Monday, January 9th, 2017

"Storms make oaks take deeper root." ~~ George Herbert




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Friday, January 6th, 2017

"All that truly matters in the end is that you loved." ~~ Regina Brett




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Thursday, January 5th, 2017

"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say." ~~   F. Scott Fitzgerald




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Wednesday, January 4th, 2017

"Our life is  frittered away with detail. Simplify.  Simplify." ~~   Henry David Thoreau




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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017

"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. " ~~ Sir Winston Churchill




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