"An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong."

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Source : Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

Marva Collins

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“In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.”
“No matter how good or bad we may feel, no matter how up or down we may be, Christ loves us, accepts us, and thinks the world of us.”
“I became a physician in order to help save lives. I am at once a physician, a citizen, and a woman, and I am not willing to stand aside and allow the concept of expendable human lives to turn this great land of ours into just another exclusive reservation where only the perfect, the privileged, and the planned have the right to live.”
“It was the Lord who put into my mind that fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures.”
“God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!”
“I'm not much interested in prizes, whether from the Arab world or from the Western world. Writing is a very difficult process and I want to continue my work.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Fear sucks. Because you never know when it will attack. Sometimes it sneaks up behind you, giggling like your best girlfriend from seventh grade. Then it whacks you on the back of the head, takes you straight to your knees before you realize what hit you. Other times you can see it coming, just a dot on the horizon, but you're like a canary in a cage. All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers.”
“I doubt very much if Mao would ever command great respect from the intellectual Ã©lite of China, perhaps not entirely because he has an extraordinary mind, but because he has the personal habits of a peasant.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

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