"What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn."

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Source : Jim Trelease (2013). “The Read-Aloud Handbook: Seventh Edition”, p.18, Penguin

Jim Trelease

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“The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all.”

Source : EDWIN MUIR (1960). “COLLECTED POEMS”
“Our conditioning program begins the first day of class. The running portion is very demanding. It has physiological advantages, as well as psychological advantages.”
“Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it, because educated people are in a position to understand what is being lost. The future of the planet concerns all of us, and all of us should do what we can to protect it. As I told the foresters, and the women, you don't need a diploma to plant a tree.”
“It's high time that Christians made up their minds to do something . . . What are we going to show in the way of resistance-as compared to the Communists, for instance-when all this terror is over? We will be standing empty-handed. We will have no answer when we are asked: What did you do about it?”
“I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.”
“Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.”
“A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.”

Source : David Gemmell (2011). “Quest For Lost Heroes”, p.43, Hachette UK
“Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.”

Source : Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.63, Hachette UK

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