January 2012
8 posts
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
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“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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WatchWatch
Move, Shake, Drop…yeah, the girls rocked it tonight. CHJN Dance Team
Jan 10th
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Jan 1st
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Jan 1st
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December 2011
29 posts
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
“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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Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to...”
– The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (via lullaby04)
Dec 5th
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“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via paperlover) :)
Dec 4th
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Dec 3rd
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“I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss...”
– Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (via bookoasis)
Dec 2nd
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“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via myquotelibrary)
Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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“A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak...”
– Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles: Classic Collection (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
Dec 2nd
“There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There...”
– Beryl Markham  (via creatingaquietmind)
Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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November 2011
22 posts
Nov 29th
“If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.”
– The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (via emptycarousels)
Nov 29th
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Nov 28th
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Nov 28th
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Nov 24th
Solitude.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow it’s mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air. The echoes bound to a joyful sound, But shrink from voicing care. Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go. They want full measure of all your pleasure,...
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Nov 22nd
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“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka
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