To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
–e e cummings
American Poet (1894 – 1962)
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Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence. — Napoleon Bonaparte
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Here is a very clever montage that is funny and motivating at the same time.
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Sometimes I feel that my life is a series of trapeze swings. I’m either hanging on to a trapeze bar swinging along or, for a few moments in my life, I’m hurtling across space in between trapeze bars.
Most of the time, I spend my life hanging on for dear life to my trapeze-bar-of-the-moment. It carries me along a certain steady rate of swing and I have the feeling that I’m in control of my life. I know most of the right questions and even some of the right answers. But once in a while, as I’m merrily (or not so merrily) swinging along, I look ahead of me into the distance, and what do I see? I see another trapeze bar swinging toward me. It’s empty, and I know, in that place in me that knows, that this new trapeze bar has (more…)
I have come to a frightening conclusion. I am the decisive element in the classroom. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or de-humanized.
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Find people who support your goals and resolutions. “Company is stronger than willpower.” Yogi Amrit Desai
You may get by, but you can’t get away.
The best fertilizer is (more…)
Are we now “in crisis” and “entering an age of scarcity”? You can see anything you like in a crystal ball. But almost without exception, the relevant data–the long-run economic trends–suggest precisely the opposite. The appropriate measures of scarcity–the costs of natural resources in human labor, and their prices relative to wages and to other goods–all suggest that natural resources have been becoming less scarce over the long run, right up to the present.
The Ultimate Resource II: People, Materials, and Environment
–Julian Simon
University of Maryland, College Park
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The intensity of our connections to those we love is a function of our knowledge that everything and everyone is evanescent. —Dr. Gordon Livingston
The best of life must be freely given to be had in abundance: love, money, appreciation, information, time, intimacy, support, gratitude.
To do work you love and (more…)
Wise men make proverbs and fools repeat them.
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin?
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