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A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life - Elbert Hubbard

But I have seen the science I worshiped and the airplane I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. - Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.

Happiness at age ten was finding an empty six pack of returnable Coke bottles. The poor kids these days will never know that they missed, which is why we have a generation gap. - Richard N. Farmer

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. - Thomas Jefferson

Be yourself. The world worships the original. - Ingrid Bergman

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. - Anna Freud

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. - Antoine De Saintexupery (The Little Prince)

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life - to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them. - Alfred Torrie

Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night. - Thelma J. Lund