"I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when Im working on a book."

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Jostein Gaarder

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“In government, one actress is enough.”
“Dusty Rhodes wouldn't win a body building contest for best abs, MacMahon, he'd win for MOST abs.”
“There's a small movement of teacher-led schools across the country. These are schools that don't have a traditional principal, teachers come together and actually run the school themselves. That's kind of the most radical way, but I think something that's more doable across the board is just creating career ladders for teachers that allow certain teachers after a certain number of years to inhabit new roles. Roles mentoring their peers, helping train novice teachers to be better at their jobs, roles writing the curriculum, leading on lesson planning.”

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“Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil?”
“The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey hither.”
“Letâ€™s just agree any group of 3 or more handsome British men should be referred to as a 'cumberbatch.'”
“I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.”
“If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as something only you and your affiliates possess, then no matter what you know, no matter how noble your intentions, you have taken one step toward the destruction of the world.”

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