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05/12/2007: "The bike got stolen and the bike has no suspects."

I make mistakes … big ones … but I never make them twice. ~ Mona Lisa Smile

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return. ~ Salman Rushdie

People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book. ~ Malcolm X

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. ~ Frank Herbert

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. ~ Sophocles

He who opens a school door closes a prison. ~ Victor Hugo

Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t. ~ Pete Seeger

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~ Robert Frost

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do that thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. ~ Thomas Huxley

To think and to be fully alive are the same. ~ Hannah Arendt

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. ~ Gandhi

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. ~ Albert Einstein

We cannot teach people anything. We can only help them discover it within themselves.

You’ll find that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong and that is hardly worth the effort. ~ Norton Justire

Look as long as you can at the friend you love, no matter whether that friend is moving away from you or coming back toward you. ~ Rumi

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go. ~ Louisa May Alcott

In this world, there’s a kind of painful progress … longing for what we’ve left behind and dreaming ahead. ~ Tony Kushner

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was before you came in. ~ James Arthur Baldwin

Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.” Say not, “I have found the path of the soul.” Say rather, “I have met the soul walking along my path.” ~ Khalil Gibram

It is not just learning things that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters. ~ Norton Justire

Learn at least this: what you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way. ~ Tony Kushner

It’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. ~ David Byrne

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. ~ Herman Hesse

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. ~ Henry David Thoreau

We are each other’s harvest, we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance. They make the latitudes and longitudes. ~ Henry David Thoreau

In a world where this is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do. ~ Dorthea Dix

Be not simply good; be good for something. ~ Henry David Thoreau

It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~ George Eliot

Courage is knowing your licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. ~ Harper Lee