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“I love children because that's a part of my life that was so happy, and I like to remember back to those days where everything is a discovery, and the world is so fresh.”
Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
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“I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.”
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“Life is half spent before we know what it is.”
Source : George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.177
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“I would never go to jail to protect animals or plants or wilderness. For me, it’s about the people.”
Source : "What Love Looks Like". Interview with Terry Tempest Williams, orionmagazine.org. May 28, 2011.
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“We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and ought still more to admire their disposition in the Brain, where an infinite number of them contained in a very small Space, do each execute their particular Offices without confusion or disorder.”
Source : "Minds Behind the Brain. A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries". Book by S. Finger, 2000.
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“We must establish all over the country schools of our own to train our own children to become scientists, to become mathematicians. We must realize the need for adult education and for job retraining programs that will emphasize a changing society in which automation plays the key role. We intend to use the tools of education to help raise our people to an unprecedented level of excellence and self respect through their own efforts.”
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“Addie, please." More tears dripped down her cheeks. "Don't be so hard." "Oh, please," I muttered...and that was as far as I got. 'You broke my heart' were the words that had risen to my mouth, but I couldn't say them. That was what you said to a boyfriend, a lover, not your best friend. She'd laugh. And I'd had enough of being laughed at. I'd worked hard to get to a place where it didn't happen anymore, where I didn't move through life like a walking target, where it was just me and my paints and brushes and my big empty bed every night. "You weren't a good friend," I said instead.”
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“I don't want to live the rest of my life thinking about you and dreaming of what might have been. Stay with me, Allie.”