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Thinking pointsRead the quotation below:

• brainstorm anything it brings to mind

• pick out two key words

• decide what you think the message is

• give your opinion of the message.

Remember, this is about your independent thought:

don’t worry about what others think!

‘Self-knowledge is like a garden. If it is not cultivated, it

cannot be harvested.’Guinean proverb









‘Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.’

Peter Ustinov









‘Every minute you spend being angry is sixty seconds in which

you could have had a good time.’Robert Stolz









‘Childhood is the bank-balance of the writer.’

Graham Greene









‘Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops

the powers of the mind.’Marcel Proust









‘The jewel that we find, we stoop and take itBecause we see it: but what we do not see,We tread upon, and never think of it.’

Angelo in Measure for Measure William Shakespeare









‘Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue. It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.’

Benjamin Franklin









‘Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by

understanding.’Albert Einstein









‘In times of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future: the

learned find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.’

Eric Hoffer









‘You can’t harness wishy-washiness.’

Bob Geldof









‘Words are like leaves; and where they aboundMuch fruit of sense beneath is rarely found

Alexander Pope

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