The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared...to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Charles Dickens

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.

Franz Boas

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Kurt Vonnegut

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Earl Nightingale

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

Catharine Beecher

The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.

Steve Rivkin

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.

Al Bundy

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

Ansel Adams

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.

Timothy Garton Ash

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Blaise Pascal