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It is not an easy thing to alter the trajectory of your life. People have expectations on your behalf. You come to believe them yourself.
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Poetry is a language adequate to one's experience.
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A horse," he once said, "is the symbol of the rider's soul."
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Test-oriented teaching strikes me as anti-educational, a kind of unpleasant game that subverts the real aim of education: to waken a student to her or his potential, and to pursue a subject of considerable importance without restrictions imposed by anything except the inherent demands of the material.
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This is my commandment," Jesus said, putting before us a single ideal, "That you love one another, as I have loved you" (John 15:12). The simplicity and force of this statement take away the breath."
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and he realized that he missed the old days of sailing, the ship almost willowy and hesitant, responsive to winds and weathers - not this hard, unthinking, mechanical drive toward a goal or destinations, so typical of the age itself.
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But Jesus felt her yearning, her fragility masked by bravado. He always broke down barriers, never erected them.
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Jesus had upset the temporal authorities, and political consequences would surely follow.
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