"My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. [â€¦]. I'm two, and both keep their distance â€” Siamese twins that aren't attached."

-- Fernando Pessoa

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“Comedy is second nature for me.”
“I have the students for six hours a day. The community has them for 18 hours, plus prenatal and early childhood. I don't believe the schools create (the achievement gap), but our responsibility is not to add to it. We won't eliminate the gap until the community makes education a priority, but the schools can't wait for the community to do its part.”
“Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.”
“The brain happens to be a meat machine.”
“I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.”
“From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.”

Source : Elizabeth George Speare (2011). “The Witch of Blackbird Pond”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.”
“As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. A balance is struck. Control, servitude, respect, imagination, pragmatism, an ecological conscience, compliance, and a certain measure of mysticism and altruism, all meld together to provide nurturance.”

Source : Jim Nollman (2005). “Why We Garden: Cultivating a Sense of Place”, p.104, Sentient Publications

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