At work, you're replaceable... but as a parent, you're irreplaceable.
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don't parse parsley
nor bomb poppies
nor purchase antipeople papers...
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acknowledge heliocr...
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and the Cheney Wolfowitz regime
are called The United States
by warwhore news ...
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.. transparent icicles in a row
in the bright sun
they drip and glow
Marks o...
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violets the vale
neith skies cloudclad
or when ultraviolet
sun prevails.
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rocking cradle of the world, sunset stairway to the stars
.. only by great masters trod, ...
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stars' light reaches him..
He needn't climb to God.
Inside him .. Elohi...
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in waking us from sleep of night.
Gently comes the dawn's twilight
Ea...
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randomly grow
but the graves of Arlington
are set in rows.
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in Morning Glory
with His Goldenrod
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(to C and R Da...
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green brushes attempting
where the...
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olives free for all.
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in many countries
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bee, the OerHoverer.
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all adorning
with his awesome light
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says ...
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a cloistered trillium
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MARIA MONTESSORI If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno...
MARIA MONTESSORI Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles hav...
MARIA MONTESSORI Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to ...
MARIA MONTESSORI An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a con...
MARIA MONTESSORI There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all c...
MARIA MONTESSORI The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
MARIA EDGEWORTH Discipline must come through liberty. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has ...
MARIA MONTESSORI Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
QUEEN MARIA If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to...
MARIA MONTESSORI People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
MARIA MITCHELL An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in m...
MARIA CALLAS Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
MARIA MITCHELL Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears
MARIA MITCHELL The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. ...
MARIA LENHART Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
MARIA ROBINSON Nature knows best, and she says, roar!
MARIA EDGEWORTH We cannot create observers by saying "observe," but by giving them the power and the means for this ...
MARIA MONTESSORI The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our ...
MARIA MONTESSORI People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
MARIA MITCHELL Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
MARIA EDGEWORTH I want to go berry picking on the hogback, God.
Keep me on a short leash.
MARIA SC Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
MARIA ROBINSON Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of w...
MARIA MONTESSORI The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convict...
MARIA MONTESSORI I have received more fulfillment and adulation than I would ever know what to do with in terms of sh...
MARIA BAMFORD The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. ...
MARIA MONTESSORI I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a stor...
MARIA SEMPLE Not having an administrator sends the wrong message to the airline industry.
MARIA CANTWELL At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs...
MARIA MONTESSORI The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
MARIA MONTESSORI The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that t...
MARIA MONTESSORI If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany l...
MARIA MONTESSORI The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a ...
MARIA MONTESSORI That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pu...
MARIA CALLAS We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural proce...
MARIA MONTESSORI