The Courage to Teach: "The word passion of course can meen intense love or intense suffering or both. The two go hand in hand in language as well as life" no wonder it took this guy 10 years to write this book ( Read more... )

p263 Doc has given Marie advice to change her diet to cure pimples while they have been praying ( Read more... )

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by ( Read more... )

If I were to put it into a very few words, my dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation. We inculcate the virtue of avoiding excess of all kinds---even including, if you pardon the paradox, excess of virtue itself. In the valley which you have seen, ... we have found that the principle makes for a considerable degree of ( Read more... )

Children should never have to die ( Read more... )

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We have offended all the oldest divinities, in every thinkable way. "Tata Nzolo!" we sing, and I wonder what new, disgusting sins we commit each day, holding our heads high in sacred ignorance while our neighbors gasp, hand to mouth ( Read more... )

by Jonathan Safran Foer ( Read more... )

What a title. So many possible meanings ( Read more... )

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