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"If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place."
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"Sleeping in the rain helps me forget things like I am going todie and you are going to die and the cats are going to diebut it's still good to stretch out and know you have arms andfeet and a head, hands, all the parts, even eyes to closeoncemore, it really helps to know these things, to know youradvantagesand your limitations, but why do the cats have to die, Ithink that theworld should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, justcats andrain, rain and cats, very nice, goodnight."

"You can't escape the existential suffering of life as long as you are living. So get used to it."

"Evil doesn't always have one face, Ethan."

"You do not need to make everyone happy, because you are not paid for."

"Your skin is your skin. Your legs are your legs. Your hair is your hair. Your smile is your smile. Your past is your past. You can waste your life hating these things, but you may as well learn to accept them. Both routes are difficult and full of pain, but with acceptance, you will be happy one day, while with hatred, you never will."

"This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to."

"To Acknowledge Demonstrates Acceptance."

"Until I realize that it's all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it."

"Don't resent a woman for who she is not, love her for who she is."

"It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important."
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"If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement."


"If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve."


"We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system."


"No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence."


"Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?"


"I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture."


"What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now."
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