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St. Peter: “Who is knocking at my gate?” Voice: “It is I.” St. Peter: “Go away, we don’t need any more school teachers here!

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• An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Money

• Sometimes, things just fall into your lap, and that's pretty incredible.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Pretty
  • Fall
  • Sometimes

• My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Parents

• And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.

  

  Yasmine Galenorn
  • Want
  • Play
  • Lovers

• Letters should be easy and natural.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Should
  • Easy
  • Natural

• If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Laugh
  • Insane

• Today's children need more years of education than we are offering. And they need more daily hours of instruction than we are providing. They are ready to learn long before kindergarten, and on the other end of the spectrum, all of them must have access to advanced education for years after they graduate from high school.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Children
  • Education
  • Instruction

• Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Entering
  • Knocks
  • Persistently

• For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.

  

  John Milton
  • False
  • Frail
  • Surmise

• Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

  

  John Calvin
  • Speak
  • Man's Nature
  • Factory Of Idols

• Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Artist
  • Draws
  • Crumbles

• I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give'em yours!

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Thought
  • Smile

• Mima. No despair. She was dying, and there was not one sign of despair in her dancing eyes.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Eyes
  • Dancing
  • Despair

• We have the Bible in our hands; but how little we know of its teaching! And how little are we governed by it! We go on, from week to week, year to year, with things which have no foundation whatever in its pages- yea, with things utterly opposed to its teaching; and, all the while, we boast of having the Scriptures, just like the Jews of old, who made their boast of having the oracles of God, while those very oracles condemned themselves and their ways, and left them without a single plea.

  

  Charles Henry Mackintosh
  • Christian
  • Week
  • Teaching

• Public school teachers enjoy a huge amount of job security, thanks to their powerful unions and inflexible work rules.

  

  Mike Gallagher
  • School
  • Powerful
  • Security

• Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Desire
  • Teachers
  • Disciples

• St. Peter: “Who is knocking at my gate?” Voice: “It is I.” St. Peter: “Go away, we don’t need any more school teachers here!

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Teachers
  • Knocking
  • My Gate