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“Ideas won’t keep…” #34

If you miss seven balls out of ten, you’re battling three hundred, and that’s good enough for the Hall of Fame. You can’t score if you keep the bat on your shoulder.
-Walter B. Wriston

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“How do you make a life?…” #7

… The high school student is nagged until he declares what he wants to do when he grows up. The [teenager] who knows that much about himself [or herself] is one in a thousand. The rest pretend they know; and from the moment are channeled toward a life which they may not discover to be [...]

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #92

You just have to learn not to care about the dust-mice under the beds.
-Margaret Mead

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #16

Schools should be the happiest place in society. And I’ll bet many are.
-Richard J. Cattani

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“…wonderous days, surprising days” #14

Only by slowing down and pruning our schedules can we reclaim the most valuable thing we own: our time.
-Ralph Keyes

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #61

Humor is falling down the stairs if you do it while telling [someone else] not to.
-Kenneth Bird

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #8

When you cannot get a compliment any other way, pay one to yourself.
-Mark Twain

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“How do you make a life?…” #11

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
On Architecture
Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
-Vida D. Scudder
The Privilege of Age

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #37

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
-Racheal Carson

A new school. A new friend. A new home. A new stepparent or family. Any new start can be difficult. It’s a CHANGE, and change makes everything uncertain for a while. It gets easier as you keep going, though, and the new thing becomes more familiar.
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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #54

There’s a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over–and let it go. It means learning what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of the  future, a belief that every exit [...]

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