"I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year."

-- Tayari Jones

#School Quotes #Years Quotes #Mentor Quotes

“Nothing influences our ability to cope with the difficulties of our existence so much as the context in which we view them; the more contexts we can choose between, the less do the difficulties appear to be inevitable and insurmountable.”
“I'm a Harry Truman, JFK, Scoop Jackson and Bill Clinton Democrat.”
“Anything thatâ€™s too safe is not action.”
“I do not have too much sex. I hardly have any sex, O.K.? A lot of people get the wrong perception of me.”
“The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off”

Source : Rex Stout (2010). “Three at Wolfe's Door”, p.177, Crimeline
“Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.”
“It's not about the fish; it's not about the pollution; it's not about the climate change. It's about us and our greed and our need for growth and our inability to imagine a world that is different from the selfish world we live in today.”

Source : "How we wrecked the ocean". TED conference, www.ted.com. April 2010.
“I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.”

Source : "New Orleans Web Denizens Steamed Over Mencia's Orpheus Invite" by Lauren List, www.mardigras.com. February 05, 2009.

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