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"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverance to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."  ~Jacob Chanowski

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."  ~Henry Brooks Adams

"Somedays even wearing my lucky rocketship underwear doesn't help."  ~Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any."  ~Fred Astaire

"It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes:  if you are in one, stop digging."  ~Denis Healy

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Drink it all in... there is no way to happiness; happiness IS the way."  ~Wayne Dyer

"Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky."  ~Confucius

"Music finds its way where the rays of the sun cannot penetrate."  ~Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, VOL. I:  DIAPSALMATA

"The water in music the oar forsakes.  The air in music the wing forsakes.  All things move in music and write it.  The mouse, lizard, and grasshopper sing together on the Turlock sands, sing with the morning stars."  ~John Muir

"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."  ~Oscar Wilde

"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball."  ~Doug Larson

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."  ~Oscar Wilde

"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."  ~Erica Jong

"Hitch your wagon to a star."  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."  ~Langston Hughes

"If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it.  Anything you want to do, do it.  Want to change the world?  There's nothing to it."  ~Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

 "Pursue worthy aims."  ~Solon

"Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of."  ~Geri Weitzman

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.  Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."  ~Ralph Vaull Starrlife