"Teaching is very important to me, and it has become more important as I get older."

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Alice Mattison

#Teaching Quotes #Important Quotes

“I love Prospect Park-watching fireflies at night and going to the bandshell for free music.”
“There is no greater power on this earth than story.”
“[Hillary Clinton] supports now a hike in the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. Prior to that, she did not support that. Other issues that you could see, at least in the Democratic Party platform, they're there entirely because of the [Bernie] Sanders movement.”

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“I always think it's better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That's not saying I've never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been - it didn't take me that long to realize that it wasn't a good thing.”
“Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.”
“The great interests of an agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing nation are so linked in union together that no permanent cause of prosperity to one of them can operate without extending its influence to the others. All these interests are alike under the protecting power of the legislative authority, and the duties of the representative bodies are to conciliate them in harmony together.”
“Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.”
“Sometimes I'm inspired by a certain part of my life - I'm thinking about a place and I'll mix the colors from memory.”

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