Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they are not teaching because of the financial rewards. ~John Engler
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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One person's craziness is another person's reality. ~Tim Burton
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I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another. ~Russell M. Nelson
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As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. ~Gena Showalter
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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I never really thought about becoming a professional musician. ~John Mayall
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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You have got to have a problem that you want to solve, a wrong that you want to right. ~Steve Jobs
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Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena? ~Dan Rather
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
#quotes #janet-fitch

I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go. ~Wayne McGregor
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
#proverbs #conformity #wisdom

Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
#quotes #john-corey-whaley #family

There is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference there is, is very important. ~William James
#quotes #william-james #personality

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
#quotes #garson-kanin #night #thinking

What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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