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    Aristotle
    “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: teaching, understanding
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    Brian Tracy
    “Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.”
    ― Brian Tracy, Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed
    tags: attitude, educational, expectation, expectations, life, personality, positive, teaching, wisdom
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    Jane Smiley
    “A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.”
    ― Jane Smiley
    tags: teaching
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    Albert Einstein
    “I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: teaching
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
    tags: learning, teaching
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    Stephen R. Lawhead
    “If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just. ”
    ― Stephen R. Lawhead, Hood
    tags: advice, hood, justice, teaching
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    Erin Gruwell
    “Evil prevails when good people do nothing.”
    ― Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary
    tags: teaching
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    Alan Bennett
    “One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.”
    ― Alan Bennett , The History Boys
    tags: humanity, teaching
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: education, learning, teaching
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  • #10
    “Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.”
    ― Scott Hayden
    tags: education, inspiration, learning, teaching
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  • #11
    “the fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching.”
    ― Richard DuFour
    tags: learning, teaching
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    Umberto Eco
    “But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.”
    ― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before
    tags: story, teaching, writing
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    John Steinbeck
    “Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.”
    ― John Steinbeck
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    Albert Camus
    “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: autumn
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    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #22
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
    tags: comedy, life, yourself
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    Sigrid Undset
    “And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans--and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused--and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself.”
    ― Sigrid Undset
    tags: christmas
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    Bob Hope
    “When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.”
    ― Bob Hope
    tags: christmas
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “I heard the bells on Christmas Day
    Their old, familiar carols play,
    And wild and sweet
    The words repeat
    Of peace on earth, good-will to men!”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: christmas
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    Charles Dickens
    “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
    ― Charles Dickens
    tags: christmas
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    Charles Dickens
    “He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
    tags: christmas, happiness, pleasure
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    Charles Dickens
    “Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!”
    ― Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
    tags: childhood, christmas, dickens, home, youth
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Mistletoe," said Luna dreamily, pointing at a large clump of white berries placed almost over Harry's head. He jumped out from under it.
    "Good thinking," said Luna seriously. "It's often infested with nargles.”
    ― J.K. Rowling , Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: christmas, humor
    1403 likes



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