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Walking the tightrope between cynicism and sincerity

Mar 16, 2016 | Category: Featured
Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. Edith Wharton I wrote recently about unscrupulous optimism. Mostly this seems to have been understood as a warning against...
#John Fowles #Carl Sagan #Andrew Marr #cynicism #scepticism

Easy vs Hard

Sep 16, 2011 | Category: Featured
We choose to do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard. - JFKWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - AristotleA teachers' job is not to...
#mindsets #Dweck #Gove #Effort #John Fowles #Michael Jordan #Sir Michael Wilshaw #Susanna Rustin

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