"We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?"

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Source : Lydia Howard Sigourney (1838). “Letters to mothers”, p.19

Lydia Sigourney

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“While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.”

Source : FaceBook post by Billy Collins from May 31, 2013
“I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.”
“Panic is a horrible thing.”
“The dissonance that I felt daily flew in the face of what Silicon Valley says about itself: that it is a meritocracy, that it values intelligence and creativity, that everyone has a fair shot if they just work hard enough. This was true only if you were technical, and even that may not always be enough: in the age of the social network, who you know and who your friends were was becoming increasingly important.”

Source : Katherine Losse (2012). “The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network”, p.127, Simon and Schuster
“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the President of the United States is authorized to present, on behalf of the Congress, a gold medal of appropriate design to the family of the late Honorable Leo J. Ryan in recognition of his distinguished service as a Member of Congress and the fact of his untimely death by assassination while performing his responsibilities as a Member of the United States House of Representatives.”

Source : "Act Awarding Leo Ryan Congressional Gold Medal". United States Congress, H.R. 3348 Public Law 98 - 159, November 18, 1983.
“A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.”
“A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.”
“I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.”

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