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Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.

Bel Kaufman

I like the word OLD. Not senior, that’s for proms. Older? Older than whom? ‘Old’ is honorable and ripe
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Honorable Prom Senior
When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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Heart Kindness Volunteer
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
Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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Expression Love Self
I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all this attention. Just because you survived? Of course, I survived a lot.
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Different Inspiring Long
I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.
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Broken Reading School
To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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Cliche Language Young
… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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Good Teacher Teaching
Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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Children Connoisseurs Value
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
The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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Heart Mind Reason
People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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Bread People Shells
Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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Collapse Erratic Time
Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.
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Discovery Mind Teacher
Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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Knowledge Leader School
I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good health, living is exciting on its own.
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Long Teaching Writing

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