#lessons

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

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Only to the degree that people have what they need, that they are healthy and unafraid, that their lives are varied, interesting, meaningful, productive, joyous, can we begin to judge, or even guess, their nature. Few people, adults or children, now live such lives. ↗

— John Holt

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I can think of another quickie education for a child, which, in its way, is almost as salutary: Meeting a human being who is tremendously respected by the adult world, and realizing that that person is actually a malicious lunatic. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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In the beginning the Poets and Philosophers taught the world to see. Then after that any form of education was no longer free. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

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Life is just mirrors and misunderstandings. ↗

— Caedem Marquez

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Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike." "What?" "He'll understand. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

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Do not constantly spend your time complaining about a problem you may be having or may be up against, focus your time toward correcting the problem. Always remember, Time is value! ↗

— Victoria Addino

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He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

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The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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