"Children should transcribe favourite passages. --A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed to choose for transcription their favorite verse in one poem or another... But a book of their own, made up of their own chosen verses, should give them pleasure."

-- Charlotte Mason

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“I'm happy that I can focus on my body a little bit. I'm not happy to get surgery, but I'm happy that I can focus on getting better.”
“There is no security in following the call to adventure.”
“We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the forces science has let loose among us.”
“I turned off my Google alerts in 2009 as I learnt that following yourself on the Internet very quickly becomes unhealthy.”
“The more youâ€™re writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because itâ€™s at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.”
“Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?”

Source : "Fictional character: Clarence Oddbody". "It's a Wonderful Life", www.imdb.com. 1946.
“[In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month out, at an average velocity of 50 m.p.h. As a source of power this compares favorably with 6,000 tons of water falling every second over Niagara Falls. I will not further anticipate some H. G. Wells of the future who will ring the antarctic with power-producing windmills; but the winds of the Antarctic have to be felt to be believed, and nothing is quite impossible to physicists and engineers.”
“I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.”

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