"White wing'd angels meet the child On the vestibule of life."

-- Elizabeth Oakes Smith

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“If we decide rightly what to do, or use a correct procedure for making such decisions, that has to be because the decisions or the procedure rest on good reasons, and these reasons consist in the apprehension of truths about what we ought to do. Because these truths must constitute reasons for our decisions, and because in the rational order, reasons must always precede the decisions based on them, the truth conditions of claims about what we ought to cannot be reduced to, or constructed out of, decisions about what to do, or procedures for making such decisions.”
“Best marks go to cheaters and memorizers. Marks depend on memorizing and not on real knowledge. When you cram into your head for a test you may get a high mark but forget it the next day. That's not an education. I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen”

Source : Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.381, Open Road Media
“The most important thing is to stay positive.”
“You should have a 1-on-1 roughly every 2 weeks.”
“At the end of the day, you release music because you believe in the songs and believe that they're honest. That's all you can really hope for.”
“How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth! The moonlight leads the tides and the sun's light will not be confined within the net of heaven. But in the end all things return to the One. The deaf and the dumb, the crippled and deformed are all restored to One's perfection.”
“Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.”
“War has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. Today, if we went into Iraq, like the president would like us to do, you know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end.”

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