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Quote for the Day – Tom Waits

Tom_Waits_3“I told them this story:
In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, “Look at me…I’m tall, and I’m straight, and I’m handsome. Look at you…you’re all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you.” And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, “Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest.” So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.” ” ~ Tom Waits

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Quote for the Day – Thomas Merton

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“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.” ~ Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

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Quote for the Day – Tom Waits

Tom_Waits_3“We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.” ~ Tom Waits

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Quote for the Day – George Burns

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.  ~~ George Burns

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Quote for the Day – Thomas Merton

200px-TMertonStudy“Everything that is, is holy” ~ Thomas Merton

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Quote for the Day – Tom Waits

Tom_Waits_3“Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.” ~ Tom Waits

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Quote for the Day – E. M. Forster

“Putting her head on one side, Margaret then remarked, “To me one of two things is very clear; either God does not know his own mind about England and Germany, or else these do not know the mind of God.” A hateful little girl, but at thirteen she had grasped a dilemma that most people travel through life without perceiving.” ~~ E. M. Forster in Howards End

 

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Quote for the Day – Timothy Eagan, New York Times Editorialist

Tim Eagan‘What’s more, this latest Republican-led assault on the intelligence of young people is anti-American. If you believe in American exceptionalism, then empower students with critical thinking skills so they can defend it. Don’t give them a Bible lesson. That’s for church. Take it from James LeGrand, Oklahoma’s History Teacher of the Year in 2014.

“We teach students to think for themselves using primary sources,” he wrote in a blog post. “I’m not going to sugarcoat slavery or whitewash the treatment of Native Americans or ignore Japanese internment.”’  ~~ Timothy Eagan, New York Times Editorialist

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Quote for the Day – Thomas Merton

200px-TMertonStudy“If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men–you may make some money and you may give someone a little joy and you may make a noise in the world, for a little while. If you write for yourself, you can read what you yourself have written and after ten minutes you will be so disgusted that you will wish that you were dead.”~ Thomas Merton, Seeds of Contemplation

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Quote for the Day – Lewis Carroll

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” ~~Lewis Carroll

 

 

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