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People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.

Bel Kaufman

Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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Children Connoisseurs Value
Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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Collapse Erratic Time
People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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Bread People Shells
Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy.
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Laughing Laughter Sadness
I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen
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Bad End Good Suggest
Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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Mythology School System
When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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Heart Kindness Volunteer
I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don’t have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and at my age I can say no to anything now if I don’t want to do it. What a liberating word.
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Age Firsts Want
The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn’t it a magnificent day today?
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Moments Tick Today
If a teacher wants to know something why doesn’t she look it up herself instead of making we students do it? We benefit ourselves more by listening to her, after all she’s the teacher!
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Listening Looks Teacher
Teachers try to make us feel lower than themselves, maybe because this is because they feel lower than outside people. One teacher told me to get out of the room and never come back, which I did.
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People Teachers Trying
One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have “windows with trees in them.
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Dream School Tree
Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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Knowledge Leader School
I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
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Distance Perspective Sense Of Humor
To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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Cliche Language Young
Best marks go to cheaters and memorizers. Marks depend on memorizing and not on real knowledge. When you cram into your head for a test you may get a high mark but forget it the next day. That’s not an education.
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Cheater Day Next Real

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