May 2012
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May 17th
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February 2012
22 posts
“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who...”
– Frank Serafini (via booksandnerds)
Feb 26th
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“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
– Philip K. Dick; I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (via wordpainting)
Feb 26th
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“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for...”
– Malcolm X (via creatingaquietmind) I am so gonna use this quote in one of my To Kill a Mockingbird lessons.
Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
“If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you...”
–  Mortimer Adler (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
Feb 21st
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“When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change...”
– Viktor E. Frankl (via amandaonwriting)
Feb 20th
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Feb 20th
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Feb 19th
Feb 19th
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“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to...”
– Richard P. Feynman (via creatingaquietmind)
Feb 19th
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Feb 19th
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“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
– Alfred Hitchcock (via thegirlandherbooks)
Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
“Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may...”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via thegirlandherbooks)
Feb 14th
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“Education will be more about how to process and use information and less about...”
– Lawrence H. Summers | “What You (Really) Need to Know” (via thelibrarianontherun) I couldn’t agree more.
Feb 13th
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“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps...”
– Ayn Rand (via misswallflower)
Feb 13th
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“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel,...”
– Angela Carter (via kerryquotesquotes) Interesting point.
Feb 7th
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January 2012
10 posts
“I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (via thebookishdark) This book has me thinking about so much. And to think I almost abandoned it. I kinda have a feeling that this book’s impact isn’t found on the pages but in the questions it leaves you with after you read.
Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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Jan 18th
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“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant....”
– Albert Einstein (via michellenotmarie)
Jan 17th
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Nerd.
I would like to experience a midnight in Paris.
Jan 16th
“To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr., The Purpose of Education (via positivelypersistentteach)
Jan 16th
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Jan 14th
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Move, Shake, Drop…yeah, the girls rocked it tonight. CHJN Dance Team
Jan 10th
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Jan 1st
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December 2011
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Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 21st
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“Let her be bored. Let her have long afternoons with absolutely nothing to do....”
– Make Your Kid A Writer  (via creatingaquietmind)
Dec 21st
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Dec 19th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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“Copy out things that you really love. Any book. Put the quotation marks around...”
– Nicholson Baker on copying out passages of your favorite books by hand (via austinkleon) As a teacher, my one hope is for the students to truly grasp how important this is…how much it can teach them and how much they can learn.
Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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“All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my...”
– Fernando Pessoa (via moldavia) Hmmm….I relate but not sure I’m glad that I do.
Dec 9th
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“It’s not that I don’t like people. It’s just that when I’m in the company of...”
– Leave Me Alone I’m Reading by Maureen Corrigan (via readingforaliving)
Dec 9th
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“Choices may be unbelievably hard but they’re never impossible. To say you have...”
– Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men (via prettybooks)
Dec 9th
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