"If we want to grow as teachers -- we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner lives -- risky stuff in a profession that fears the personal and seeks safety in the technical, the distant, the abstract."

-- Parker J. Palmer

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“Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.”
“The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare at a mandala was to experience, if only briefly, the nothingness that is at the heart of enlightenment.”

Source : Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child (2010). “The Wheel of Darkness: An Agent Pendergast Novel”, p.124, Hachette UK
“You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.”
“I do like to dress up. I am shapely, everything about me is real and I can rap.”
“Forgive me for my disrespect, forgive me for my lies.”
“We can support Barack Obama because he's committed to putting America back to work with good jobs - and he proved it by saving the auto industry.”
“Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.”
“In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.”

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