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"And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies.My Todd dies."
"Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand."
"Man is dust. Rue is rain. Life is mud."
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"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."
"People worried about our passing over into some robotic state, but we were so much like robots already, programmed and easy to manipulate."
"How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting."
"You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher."
"Why do you want to be on The Real World?-Because I want everyone to witness my youthWhy?-Isn't it gorgeous?"
"It was a broken world, I knew then, that would allow a boy such as me to bury a boy such as William K."
"His frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. He was so content in this country, so impressed with and loving of its opportunities, but then why, sometimes, did Americans fall short of their best selves?"
"You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to be evidence of some serious problem, right?"
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