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A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.
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No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
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The machine yes the machine
never wastes anybody's time
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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
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Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.
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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
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People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.
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An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.
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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
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Back water rising, coming in my windows and doors I leave with a prayer in my heart: back water won't rise no more
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Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.
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Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
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From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend on reading it.
Life (9 geb. 1962), over Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge van S.J. Perelman -
I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.
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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
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Implicitly adopting the male life as the norm, they have tried to fashion women out of a masculine cloth. It all goes back to Adam and Eve a story which shows... that if you make a woman out of man, you are bound to get into trouble.
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
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