Tag: children
member name: Bill Allin
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August 23, 2006 05:17 PM EDT --
"I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism."
- Charles M Schwab, . . .
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August 30, 2006 07:41 PM EDT --
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.
- Thomas Pynchon, writer (1937- )
"They" are bullies, though they may wear suits. Like more traditional . . .
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February 10, 2007 07:47 PM EST --
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
- H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
Since Mencken's time medical science . . .
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December 30, 2007 11:23 AM EST --
Science plays a critically important role in our lives. It not only influences the technology we use, it also affects our politics (global warming being but one example), our religion ("Is God just . . .
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October 26, 2006 07:05 PM EDT --
"You cannot wake a man who is pretending to be asleep."
- Somali proverb
This quotation has so many layers of meaning that its limit depends on your imagination.
First is the surface layer. . . .
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April 05, 2007 07:00 PM EDT --
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (1729-1797)
"I don't vote because my one vote won't make any . . .
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May 24, 2007 11:58 AM EDT --
Schools have a mystique about them among many parents because teachers accomplish things with children that non-educators can’t fathom or even grasp the degree of their influence on their children. . . .
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January 05, 2008 10:17 PM EST --
It shocked me. It disgusted me. I wanted to hurt someone.
The headline screamed out from the cover of Toronto Life magazine: Lock
Up Your Daughters. Surely the magazine used a metaphor to make its . . .
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August 09, 2006 07:25 PM EDT --
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Such insight from a man whose life was a bit scrambled itself.
Let's take the quote . . .
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January 10, 2008 09:36 PM EST --
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity ... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the . . .
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July 03, 2008 05:41 PM EDT --
Irony? Hypocrisy? Double standard? No term fits the need to describe the situation where a person who believes in the right to life for a zygote a few days old or a fetus a few days older still is prepared . . .
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July 30, 2006 12:42 PM EDT --
A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
- G.K. Chesterton, author (1874-1936) . . .
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September 16, 2006 07:21 PM EDT --
"If you don't run your own life, somebody else will."
- John Atkinson, Baron Atkinson of Glenwilliam (1844–1931)
This lesson should be taught to everyone. While many people today give . . .
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February 03, 2007 04:32 PM EST --
"Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is."
- George Lucas, movie producer and animation innovator
Doesn't that make sense? Lucas, . . .
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January 03, 2008 09:46 AM EST --
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves and the world around us.
- Socrates , Greek philosopher (470 BCE-399 BCE)
Socrates didn't really . . .
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June 29, 2006 07:02 PM EDT --
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your
hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your . . .
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July 21, 2006 03:34 PM EDT --
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an
injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are
aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and . . .
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July 21, 2006 07:42 PM EDT --
This message has no good news over which you may rejoice. It does, however, have some information you didn't know that might affect your life or the life of a child you know.
You know about the dangers . . .
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September 07, 2006 06:26 PM EDT --
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
- William Cowper, poet (1731-1800)
It would be nice to . . .
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September 14, 2006 07:55 PM EDT --
You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.
- Rwandan Proverb
There are no acceptable excuses. No matter what we may say to convince ourselves.
We are not . . .
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