"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." (Tom Clancy)
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." (Dr. Seuss)
"Not all those who wander are lost." (J.R.R. Tolkien)
"What if the hokey pokey really is what it is all about?" (Ocean City NJ Tee Shirt)
"What if the truth is a conversation, not a statement?" (T. Barton Thurber)
"Most people are mirrors, merely reflecting the mood and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners, where troubles fester; and the whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." (Sydney J. Harris)
"Fall seven times, stand up eight." (Japanese Proverb)
"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have." (Margaret Mead)
"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito." (African Proverb)
"If your only tool is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." (A. Maslow)
"A journey of a thousand miles starts with but a single step." (Lao Tzu)
"It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters, in the end." (Ursula K. Le Guin)
"Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest." (Mark Twain)
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain . . . and most fools do." (source unknown)
"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." (William James)
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." (Teddy Roosevelt)
"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." (Alexander Hamilton)
"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else." (Lee Iacocca)
"Inspired teachers cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods and the swamps like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory, not in a carpenter shop; and they must be honored and trusted." (John Jay Chapman)
" The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour." (source unknown)
"Insanity . . .Continuing to do the same things and expecting different results." (Albert Einstein)
"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet." (Damon Runyon)
"Time's fun when you're having flies." (Kermit the Frog)
TO THOSE OUTSIDE OF THE FIELD OF EDUCATION -- POLITICIANS, BUSINESS FOLKS, AND OTHERS WHO ARE OFTEN QUICK TO CRITICIZE TEACHERS . . . In the words of Teddy Roosevelt:
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
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