"The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society."

-- Shirley Hufstedler

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“All they get around here is stories. Stories don't make you bleed.Â Stories don't make you go hungry, don't give you sore feet.Â When you're young smelling of pigshit and convinced there ain't a weapon in all the damn world that's going to hurt you, all stories do is make you want to be part of them.”
“The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.”
“All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish.”
“If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.”
“People don't choose or own cats. Cats choose the people they want to own.”
“The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.”
“Due to success I started losing friends.”

Source : Song: Have Mercy, 2013
“In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.”

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