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experience lesson repeat school
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.
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I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning.
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Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions - everyone but a school bus driver.
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Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are afraid of the school board, school boards who are afraid of the parents, parents who are afraid of the children, and children who are afraid of nobody.
languages smile smiles speaks
There are hundreds of languages in the world but a smile speaks them all.
ahead closes door great opens possibilities
When one door closes another one opens with great possibilities ahead
bother hour lover men wants woman
When a woman wants a man and lusts after him, the lover need not bother to conjure up opportunities, for she will find more in an hour than we men could think of in a century.
dealing juvenile social words workers
Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?
parents spanking terms
Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.
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Too many of us speak twice before we think
ahead careful children criticize fact far parents praise quick slow tend
With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.
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Those that say you can't take it with you never saw a car packed for a vacation trip.
earth purpose
What on earth are you doing for Heaven's sake?
die gather learn pain sadness strength time
We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.