A Thought for the day....

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Victory lies in overcoming obstacles everyday!

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

You can only find truth with logic, if you have already found truth without it.

When you say one thing, the clever person understands three.

If you get up one more time then you fail you will make it though.

No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing.

If you don't scale the mountian you can't view the plains.


Well that is enough for a week to get it started. Anyone else like to share?

Oh, http://www.shaolinkempo.com/zensay.htm

[dennisrn]

this could be a good place to begin a discussion like this as it was very well attended on the other forum

http://home2.invisionzone.com/index.php?showforum=134

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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant follows public opnion

[deathintheafternoon]

Too many people are unwilling to accept the truth no matter how 'inconvenient' it may be. Lemmings...

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Seek Not to follow in the footsteps of the wise, seek what they sought.

[DaSarge]

Before we talk about how cold it is outside, remember that two weeks ago it was 30 degrees colder. :D

"Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just."
Henry David Thoreau

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welcome Sarge....well in honor of the sarge and any other military present....how about a few extras today?


It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
~Author unknown, sometimes attributed to M. Grundler


This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
~Elmer Davis


I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. ~Abraham Lincoln


Freedom is never free.
~Author Unknown


How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
~Maya Angelou


Lord, bid war's trumpet cease;
Fold the whole earth in peace.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes


The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.
~Thomas Campbell


Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen,
Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.
~Richard Watson Gilder

http://www.quotegarden.com/armed-forces-day.html

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Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday



Sooner or later, that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly
trait shall add a richer strain to the song

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see,
only the way you see it



We are EveryDay Angels; be careful with us 'cause we'd like to stay
that way

Be the difference
That makes the difference
You are the difference

We are loved beyond our ability to comprehend

We’ll fight, not out of spite
For someone must stand up for what’s right
'Cause where there’s a man who has no voice
There ours shall go singing

We are not separate from Spirit, we are in it

Cherish your vision; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your
heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest
thoughts, if you remain true to them, your world will at last be built.

-Jewel



What does it mean that when you're such a pacifist you get shot?

War is over, if you want it

We are writing in the sky instead of on paper - that's our song. Lift your
eyes and look up in the sky. There's our message. Lift your eyes again and look
around you, and you will see that you are walking in the sky, which extends to the
ground. We are all part of the sky, more so than the ground.

-John Ono Lennon



Looking back, it was the happiest and therefore the most tragic period of our lives.
As John said in his song, "You don't know what you got, until you lose it".
We thought we knew... but we really didn't.

What was meant to be, was meant to be

-Yoko Ono



No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

-Aesop



The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed.

-Charlotte Bronte



The best mirror is an old friend.

-George Herbert



Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always.

-Sophocles



If you want to be happy, be

-Leo Tolstoy



When we can't dream any longer we die.

-Emma Goldman

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Yesterday is history. Tommorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift that's why they call it the present.

Unknown

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Dream as if you have forever. Live as if you only have today.

James Dean

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Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.

Max Weber
German, Economist Quotes

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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

Abdul Kalam
Indian, Statesman Quotes

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The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Nikola Tesla
American, Inventor Quotes

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The people who ask me for my autograph are the people who've put me here today, and you can't afford to forget that.

Katie Price
english, Model Quotes

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General Philosophy

We believe it is important that a school be 'led' by a set of agreed shared beliefs. To achieve this staff and community need to enter into 'learning conversation's to define and articulate such a philosophy. As it is said: If you stand for nothing you will fall for anything' or 'Control your own destiny or someone else will'.

'What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all its children. Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely; acted upon it destroys our democracy.' John Dewey

'We need a metamorphosis of education - from the cocoon a butterfly should emerge. Improvement does not give us a butterfly only a faster caterpillar.' Learning to Learn www.learningtolearn.sa.edu.au

'No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that created it. We need to see the world anew.' Albert Einstein

'Insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting the different results' Albert Einstein.

'Some people would rather die than think'. Bertrand Russell

'If we always do what we've always done, we will get what we've always got.' Adam Urbanski

'One can never consent to creep when one feels the compulsion to soar'. Helen Keller

'Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.' Oliver Wendell Holmes Jnr

'Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each others errors….Only a sailor can set them straight'. John Ralston Saul, 'Voltaire's Bastards'.

'The faithful witness, like…Socrates, Voltaire, and Swift and Christ himself, is at his best when he is questioning and clarifying and avoiding the specialists obsession with solution. He betrays society when he is silent…He is true to himself and to people when his clarity causes disquiet.' John Ralston Saul 'Voltaire's Bastards'

'Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.' Peter Block Business Philosopher

'Wordsmiths who serve established power…castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.' John Ralston Paul, 'Voltaire's Bastards.'

'It is today we must create the world of the future.' Eleanor Roosevelt

'The human mind treats a new idea the way a body treats a strange problem it rejects it.' Sir Peter Medawar

'Some folks are wise, some are otherwise'. Tobies George Smollett

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.' Isaac Newton

'Those who do nothing are never wrong.' Theodore de Bouville

'The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.' From the Go -Between

'We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older…then it is very hard to change our minds'. Howard Gardner

'Fundamentalism is a kind of decision not to change your mind about something…Many of us is fundamentalists…because it worked pretty well for us.' Howard Gardner

'Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail'. Ralph Waldo Emerson

'The world by and large has to be reinvented.' Charles Handy in 'Beyond Certainty'.

'There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.' Frederico Fellini Film Director

'Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge'. Winston Churchill

'There is nothing as useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.' Peter Drucker Business Philosopher.

'Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present.' Peter Drucker

'I believe that revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new life forms.' M Gorbachev

'Chaos breeds life, where order breeds habit,' Henry Brooks US Historian

'Is anybody alive out there?' Bruce Springsteen to the crowd.

'It is impossible to soar like an eagle if you are surrounded by turkeys' Anon

'Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.' Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.' Edward de Bono

'To simplify you have to clarify. Simplification is the new competitive advantage' Jack Trout 'Simplicity'

'Our life is frittered away by detail.. simplicity simplicity, simplicity.' Henry Thoreau

'We need to be the authors of our own life.' Peter Senge

'We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over safety and use their talents to question and confront the culture.' Peter Block, Philosopher

'We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming'. Verner von Braun

'First define, then refine'. Bill Guild NZ Pioneer teacher

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I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show. ~Andrew Wyeth


Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours." ~Robert Byrne


There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. ~Ruth Stout


One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff. ~Shirley Ann Grau


Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. ~Pietro Aretino


The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. ~John Burroughs


Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so. ~Stanley Crawford


I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood. ~Bill Watterson


Every mile is two in winter. ~George Herbert


"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it." ~Henry David Thoreau, 28 November 1858 journal entry


When the bold branches
Bid farewell to rainbow leaves -
Welcome wool sweaters.
~B. Cybrill


I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime. ~Will Rogers


Winter dies into the spring, to be born again in the autumn. ~Marche Blumenberg


Every winter,
When the great sun has turned his face away,
The earth goes down into a vale of grief,
And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables,
Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay -
Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
~Charles Kingsley


To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring. ~W.J. Vogel


O, wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
~Percy Bysshe Shelley


Winter came down to our home one night
Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow,
And we, we were children once again.
~Bill Morgan, Jr.