"The average American worker gets something like 14 days of paid vacation. In my school, you'd use up ten of those taking care of your kids on teacher professional days, then tack on a couple more for kids getting sick."

-- Hanna Rosin

#Teacher Quotes #Couple Quotes #School Quotes

“By running from what we fear, we feed the inner darkness”
“At Delphi I prayed to Apollo that he maintain in me the flame of the poem and I drank of the brackish spring there....”
“Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy.”
“Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.”
“That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.”
“It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.”
“The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.”

Source : Thomas Francis Meagher (1853). “Speeches on the Legislative Independence of Ireland”, p.83
“During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing will be relatively high, but will continue so no longer than till the requisite capital is obtained.”

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