Quote of the Week--August 6, 2017

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.  Just get people to stop reading them."

Ray Bradbury

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Quote of the Week--July 30, 2017

"You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought."

John Greenleaf Whittier

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Quote of the Week--July 23, 2017

"The supreme quality of leadership is integrity."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Quote of the Week--July 16, 2017

"Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them.  If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear."

~Judy Blume

This was my philosophy as my stepdaughter was growing up.  I committed to reading whatever she was interested and talking with her about it.  There aren't many topics we haven't discussed over the years.

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Quote of the Week--July 9, 2017

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
~Jonathan Kozol

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Quote of the Week--July 2, 2017

"Suffer the pain of discipline, or suffer the pain of regret."

~Jim Rohn

(One of my students had this on a tee-shirt and I had to look up the quote.)

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Quote of the Week--June 25, 2017

"When people talk, listen completely."

~Ernest Hemingway

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Quote of the Week--June 18, 2017

"I have not failed.  I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

~Thomas A. Edison

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Quote of the Week--June 11, 2017

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Quote of the Week--June 4, 2017

"To add value to others, one must first value others."

~John Maxwell

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Quote of the Week--May 28, 2017

"Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you."

~Margaret Thatcher

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Quote of the Week -- May 21, 2017

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

~Mark Twain

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Quote of the Week--May 14, 2017

"Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."

~Moliere

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Quote of the Week--May 7, 2017

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."

~Henry Kissinger

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Quote of the Week -- April 30, 2017

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."

Paul Boese

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Quote of the Week -- April 23, 2017

"Reading -- the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay."

William Stryon

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Quote of the Week -- April 16, 2017

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you."

Louis Smedes

Happy Easter to my Christian readers.

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Quote of the Week -- April 9, 2017

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."

~H. G. Wells

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Quote of the Week -- April 2, 2017

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

~Babe Ruth

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Quote of the Week--March 26, 2017

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

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