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"Some of the least glamorous yet most valuable character traits, such as patience, tenacity, foresight, courage, self-control, and acceptance are won in the trenches of parenthood."
-Wendy Mogel

�I don�t divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don�t. I divide the world into learners and non-learners.�
Benjamin Barber

"Those that speak do not know. Those who know do not speak."
Lao Tse

Read this somewhere once and had a bit of a chuckle:-

"It matters not what you eat between Christmas and New Year. It's what you eat between New Year and Christmas that matters."

Dusting off this thread...

"The key to happiness is not to be constantly positive; it is to be constantly honest."
Robert Holden

"The mind is like a parachute. It only works when it is open."

"The earth is what we all have in common."
Wendell Berry

Happy Earth Day!

"Closing the achievement gap by pushing down the top is like fostering fitness by outlawing marathons."
Helen Schinske

I like that one!

". . . For as much as the world has benefited from the contributions of gifted individuals, it is disturbing, to this writer, to realize that the population least likely to learn and achieve its potential is the highly gifted."
~ Joseph Cardillo

Saw this on the Davidson eNews Update and thought it was great!