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“Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself. ”
― James Frey, My Friend Leonard

“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”
― Tennessee Williams, Camino Real

“We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.”
― Horace Mann

“Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.”
― H. G. Wells