"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."
-Lily Tomlin
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"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.“
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"Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?"
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"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
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"If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?"
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"Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed."
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"The best mind-altering drug is the truth."
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-Robert Frost
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"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
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"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
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"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
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"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
-Thomas Carlyle
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