"How do you convince someone they're not thinking clearly, when they're not thinking clearly? What we're actually saying is no magic, no afterlife, no higher moral authoritative father-figure, no security, and no happy ever after. This is a tough sell."

-- Phil Plait

#Father Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Afterlife Quotes

“Teach your students real-world writing purposes, add a teacher who models his or her struggles with the writing process, throw in lots of real-world mentor texts for students to emulate, and give our kids the time necessary to enable them to stretch as writers.”

Source : Kelly Gallagher (2011). “Write Like this: Teaching Real-world Writing Through Modeling & Mentor Texts”, p.21, Stenhouse Publishers
“People like to lay their whole life, and all of their own secrets out in front of the world. They make money off of it, and find satisfaction that way. I personally don't believe in that. I think it can be hurtful to yourself and those around you.”
“I have a lot of fun with guns, especially the M-16, but my favourite is my little .22. It fits nicely in the palm of your hand. I do limit myself to blanks.”
“God's imageâ€¦is found not best in individual humans, but in humans as they relate to each other.”
“But a piece of paper can be a powerful presence. I have always had enormous respect for the written word and invariably find a letter more revealing than a face-to-face conversation. In a strange way I suspect I will get to know you better at a distance than I would if you had stayed at home ...”

Source : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.172, Penguin
“By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five weeks; I do several drafts, very, very furiously rewriting. I literally do more or less nothing else and I stick with it and go through it and I begin to hate it.”
“The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.”
“I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain rebellious to any action.”

Source : "Exarch Leonid Feodorov" by Paul Mailleux, (p. 181), 1964.

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