We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

William Glasser
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  2. I’m a fake fact factory. The things I make are the things I make up. Also, as a side business, I make love. Actually, I just made that up. - Dora J. Arod

  3. The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. - E.m. Forster

  4. Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt. - Toba Beta

  5. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved... - Thomas Henry Huxley

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  1. When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

  2. The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

  3. To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we have no control over it.

  4. Choice Theory explains that, for all practical purposes, we choose everything we do.

  5. What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

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