"I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers..."

-- Alice Walker

#Meaningful Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Circles Quotes

“I'm killing time and it's dying hard.”
“It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.”
“...every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.”

Source : FaceBook post by Terri Blackstock from Oct 18, 2013
“I feel like I partly came to writing through being in college during the start of the Iraq war, and knowing that those issues mattered lot to me, and wanting to go see for myself.”
“Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.”

Source : Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.97, University of Chicago Press
“Good character is that quality which makes one dependable whether being watched or not, which makes one truthful when it is to one's advantage to be a little less than truthful, which makes one courageous when faced with great obstacles and which endows one with the firmness of' wise self-discipline.”
“It's almost impossible to live the right life when you have the wrong friends.”
“When I finish a workout I feel pretty sexy even though I'm sweaty and I don't smell like a rose. I feel stong. It does a lot for me mentally and physically.”

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