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"It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things."
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"I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent."
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"It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes."
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"When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens."
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"I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true."
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"The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."
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"Sometimes you are damn wrong and you just don't get it."
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"Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives."
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"Thongs don't show. With jeans, you're always going to get panty lines and I think that's just a big mistake."
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"Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice."
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"A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal."
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"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think."
Education
"My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!"
Heart
"It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!"
Experience
"It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things."
Mistake
"People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved."
Success
"I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child."
Love
"We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about."
Nothing
"The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments."
Truth
"I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area."
History
"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction."
Sympathy
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