"One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen."

-- Philip Wylie

#Teacher Quotes #Appreciation Quotes #Citizens Quotes

“Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.”
“Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.”
“There is no peace more wonderful than the peace we enjoy when faith shows us God in all created things.”

Source : Jean-Pierre De Caussade (2012). “Abandonment to Divine Providence”, p.40, Image
“Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.”
“People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.”
“In America everyone's fast.”
“I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode Island/Massachusetts New England region is arguably the hardest dialect to nail.”
“Government should allow persons to engage in whatever conduct they want to, no matter how deviant or abnormal it may be, so long as (a) they know what they are doing, (b) they consent to it, and (c) no one - at least no one other than the participants - is harmed by it.”

Source : Edwin M. Schur, Hugo Adam Bedau (1974). “Victimless crimes: two sides of a controversy”, Prentice Hall

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