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PHILOSOPHIES IN RELIGION

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. ~JohnUpdike, Self-Consciousness, 1989

A religion without the element of mystery would not be a religion at all. ~Edwin

Lewis


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It is doubtless true that religion has been the world's psychiatrist throughout the

centuries. ~Karl Menninger

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses

all religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays. ~Cathy

Ladman

No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a

sense of infinite hazard. ~William Ernest Hocking


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I speak not of men's creeds - they rest between Man and his Maker.

~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to

serve him? ~Martin Buber

All religions must be tolerated... for... every man must get to heaven his own

way. ~Frederick the GREAT


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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated

philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is

kindness. ~Dalai Lama

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream aboutGod. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

PHILOSPHIES IN EDUCATION

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish

diversity.

-- Deborah Meier


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Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.

-- George Evans

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've

understood all your life, but in a new way.

-- Doris Lessing

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity.

In the end there are no certain answers.

-- Martina Horner


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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what

amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the

peculiar bent of the genius of each.PLATO

Learning to teach is a bigger job than universities, schools, experience,

or personal disposition alone can accomplish.

-- Sharon Feiman-Nemser

In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest

of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from

one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility


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anyone could have.

-- Lee Iacocca

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of

students with facts... it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think

for themselves.

-- Robert Hutchins

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this

afternoon.

-- Anonymous


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They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel.

-- Anonymous

PHILOSOPHIES IN HEALTH

the trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is sodifficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. ~G.K. Chesterton

There are lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health

that they haven't the time to enjoy it. ~Josh Billings


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I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is

not obliged to work till one is better. ~Samuel Butler, the Way of All Flesh, 1903

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good

as bacon. ~Doug Larson

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely

the absence of disease or infirmity. ~World Health Organization, 1948

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of

nothing. ~Redd Foxx


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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese

Proverb

The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his ownlife. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop. ~Quentin

Regestein


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Joy andT

emperance and Reposeslam the door on the doctor's nose.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb, sometimes

attributed to William C. Hazlitt


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