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#1

“Rigor doesn’t necessarily have to do with the amount of work assigned, but rather the difficulty and intensity of the problem or project.”
― Starr Sackstein, Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School

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#2

“Students of the twenty-first century require flexible environments with ever growing capacities like the Internet where literally the world is at their fingertips.”
― Starr Sackstein, The Power of Questioning: Opening up the World of Student Inquiry

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#3

“It is essential that we develop a learning space where failure is positive, as it is a catalyst for growth and change. Students need to recognize that taking a risk and not succeeding does not mean they are failing: It means they need to try another way. After”
― Starr Sackstein, Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School

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#4

“Playing to passion when you can will keep students motivated and working toward mastery.”
― Starr Sackstein, Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School

tags: assessment, education, grades

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#5

“Ruth whacked the seat beside her on the sofa, in what could only be interpreted as an invitation. It was like receiving a personalized Molotov cocktail. Gamache”
― Louise Penny, How the Light Gets In

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#6

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

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#7

“The Chicago winter is harsh. But every now and then God blesses us with a thirty-or forty-degree day to remind us that misery comes and goes.”
― Mary Kubica, The Good Girl

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#8

“No suspects. No persons of interest. Just a girl who was alive one day and dead the next.”
― Charlie Donlea, Summit Lake

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#9

“The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.”
― Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

tags: christian, faith, god, jesus, spirituality

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#10

“What we do comes out of who we believe we are.”
― Rob Bell, Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality

tags: actions, inspiration, thoughts

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#11

“Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, "God, you don't know what it's like! You don't understand! You have no idea what I'm going through. You don't have a clue how much this hurts."

The cross is God's way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.

The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, "Me too.”
― Rob Bell

tags: anger, cross, crucifixtion, god, hurt, jesus, suffering

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#12

“It was 2:00 p.m., too early for wine but not for chocolate.”
― Andrea Hurst, Always With You

tags: chocolate, food, humor, wine

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#13

“Like a white knight in a station wagon, he drove out of her life.”
― Andrea Hurst, Always With You

tags: love, love-lost, romance, soulmates, starcrossed-love, tragic-love, true-love, unrequited

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#14

“months. Weather was unpredictable and synthetic ice was now readily available”
― Barbara Hinske, Coming to Rosemont

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#16

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#17

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

tags: inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, women

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#18

“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
― Olin Miller

tags: confidence, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, others, think, worry

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#19

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
― George Orwell

tags: military, police, violence

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#20

“Time has a way of making me realize that we can either lay the blamer our problems on someone else, letting that be an excuse for why our life isn't turning out the way we want it, or we can take the blame upon ourselves and let the responsibility for any change that should happen be on us.”
― Rory Feek, This Life I Live: One Man's Extraordinary, Ordinary Life and the Woman Who Changed It Forever

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#21

“lips wide with the smile that only fatherhood can bring. I was meant for this. I allowed a vision to permeate my mind’s eye… a picture of me nestling my namesake to my chest, my firstborn son, my legacy. I had always considered my film projects to be my fame, my future. Forever my name etched”
― Pamela Crane, A Fatal Affair

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#22

“I had battled my own demons that day, facing down the thing that imprisoned me since the accident-a scar and the diffidence it created inside of me. But it was just a physical blemish, not something that made me who I am. It took a mentally disturbed murderer who gave me a sneak peak at death to show me that.”
― Pamela Crane, A Secondhand Life

tags: dark-humor, overcomer-quotes, self-awareness, self-esteem

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#23

“A row of daffodils and red tulips nestled against the walkway beneath my feet. Stray weeds peeked up through the cracks in the concrete, a reminder that that nature had the final say. No matter how much mankind bulldozed or built, all was vulnerable to Mother Nature's whims.”
― Pamela Crane, A Secondhand Life

tags: creation-of-god, creationists, creations, forces-of-nature, green-movement, mother-nature, nature-wins, pollution

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#24

“This was her special time, this early part of the day when the sun was just about to creep over the horizon. It was a brand new day in which anything could happen.”
― Fern Michaels, Vendetta

tags: inspirational

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#25

“I tell my students often, “It’s my job to teach, and I’ll make sure you have the best, most fun, and most exciting lessons in the world. However, it’s your job and responsibility to listen and learn what is being taught and then to practice with great effort. It’s a two-way street. I’m giving my best for you, and you have to do the same for me.”
― Michael Linsin, Dream Class: How To Transform Any Group Of Students Into The Class You've Always Wanted

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#26

“*See the many everyday tasks of learning as goals to be reached. Define them as goals for your students, and then track their pursuit and eventual attainment of them. Reaching goals—and making a point of acknowledging their achievement—will help your students realize what they’re capable of.”
― Michael Linsin, Dream Class: How To Transform Any Group Of Students Into The Class You've Always Wanted

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#27

“When you love your work, you're naturally going to be more effective. Your students are going to like you a lot more. Your lessons will be more dynamic and you'll have more energy. It becomes a virtuous cycle. In”
― Michael Linsin, The Happy Teacher Habits: 11 Habits of the Happiest, Most Effective Teachers on Earth

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#28

“Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.”
― Ernest Shackleton

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#29

“Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.”
― Cornel West

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#30

“I write to remember. I read to forget.”
― Michael Howard

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#31

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life, regrets

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