Senior English Daily Reflection Quotes

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Senior EnglishDaily Reflection Quotes

• Mr. Raber

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Objectives of Daily Quote Reflections

• To get our minds thinking beyond the current day
  and what is happening in school Thus LIFETHE
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• Enhance our ability to convey our thoughts
  clearly and coherently on paper.
• Enhance our ability to share our thoughts and
  feelings among our peers

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How to successfully complete this daily
assignment

• Bring your/Find your daily reflection journal (a
  one subject notebook) everyday immediately when
  the bell rings
• Sit at your desk and reference the daily quote on
  the projector
• Write on your paper the date, reflection , how
  you interpret the quote/what you think the quote
  means, and how the quote applies to YOUR life.
  (This should be two good paragraphs/approx. 1/2
  page. Thus, you can put two reflections per
  page.)
• Frequently share your reflection with the class.

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Reflection 1Tuesday 9/2/08

• Life and Death
• The hardest thing to learn in life is which
  bridge to cross and which to burn
• -David Russell

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Reflection 2 Wednesday 9/3/08

• Love and Friendship
• Always be a little kinder than necessary.
• -Sir James Matthew Barrie

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Reflection 3 Thursday 9/4/08

• Success
• Success is the ability to go from one failure to
  another with no loss of enthusiasm.
• -Sir Winston Churchill

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Reflection 4 Friday 9/5/08

• The Life of the Mind
• Knowledge is power.
• -Sir Francis Bacon

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Reflection 5 Monday 9/8/08

• Life and Death
• The most difficult thing in the world is to know
  how to do a thing and watch someone else do it
  wrong, without comment.
• -T.H. White

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Reflection 6 Tuesday 9/9/08

• Love and Friendship
• People are unreasonable, illogical, and
  self-centered. Love them anyway.
• -Mother Teresa

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Reflection 7 Wednesday 9/10/08

• Success
• Genius is one percent inspiration and
  ninety-nine percent perspiration.
• -Thomas Alva Edison

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Reflection 8 Thursday 9/11/08

• The Life of the Mind
• It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an
  argument.
• - William G. McAdoo

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Reflection 9 Friday 9/12/08

• Proverbial Wisdom
• It is easy to despise what you cannot get.
• Aesop, The Fox and the Grapes
• (the origin of the phrase sour grapes)

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Reflection 10 Monday 9/15/08

• Life and Death
• If youre in a card game and you dont know who
  the sucker is, youre it.
• -Anonymous

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Reflection 11Tuesday 9/16/08

• Love and Friendship
• To err is human, to forgive divine.
• -Alexander Pope
• To err is human to forgive, infrequent.
• -Franklin P. Adams

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Reflection 12 Wednesday 9/17/08

• Success
• It is not enough to be busyThe question is
  what are we busy about?
• -Henry David Thoreau

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Reflection 13 Thursday 9/18/08

• The Life of the Mind
• I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
  and that is that I know nothing.
• - Socrates

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Reflection 14Friday 9/19/08

• Proverbial Wisdom
• Please all, and you will please none.
• Aesop, The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey

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Reflection 15Monday 9/22/08

• Life and Death
• Too many people are thinking of security instead
  of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life
  than death.
• -James F. Byrnes

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Reflection 16Tuesday 9/23/08

• Love and Friendship
• A person is only as good as what they love.
• -Saul Bellow

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Reflection 17Wednesday 9/24/08

• Success
• The indispensable first step to getting the
  things you want out of life is this Decide what
  you want.
• - Ben Stein

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Reflection 18Thursday 9/25/08

• The Life of the Mind
• If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be
  free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
  The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on
  a one-foot chain.
• - Theodor Adorno

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Reflection 19 Friday 9/26/08

• Proverbial Wisdom
• We often give our enemies the means of our own
  destruction.
• Aesop, The Eagle and the Arrow

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Reflection 20Monday 9/29/08

• Life and Death
• We boil at different degrees.
• - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Reflection 21Tuesday 9/30/08

• Love and Friendship
• To give counsel as well as to take it is a
  feature of true friendship.
• - Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Reflection 22Wednesday 10/1/08

• Success
• The best way to make your dreams come true is to
  wake up.
• - Paul Valery

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Reflection 23Thursday 10/2/08

• The Life of the Mind
• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to
  entertain a thought without accepting it.
• - Aristotle

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Reflection 24 Friday 10/3/08

• Success
• Things turn out best for the people who make the
  best of the way things turn out.
• - John R. Wooden

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Reflection 25Monday 10/6/08

• Life and Death
• Service to others is the rent you pay for your
  room here on earth.
• - Muhammad Ali

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Reflection 26Tuesday 10/7/08

• Love and Friendship
• Laughter is the closest distance between two
  people.
• - Victor Borge

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Reflection 27Wednesday 10/8/08

• Proverbial Wisdom
• It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
• -Aesop, The Wolf and the
  Kid

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Reflection 28Thursday 10/9/08

• The Life of the Mind
• When you read a classic you do not see in the
  book more than you did before. You see more in
  you than there was before.
• - Clifton Fadiman

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Reflection 29 Friday 10/10/08

• Proverbial Wisdom
• Dont think there are no crocodiles because the
  water is calm.
• Malayan proverb

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Reflection 30Tuesday 10/14/08

• Love and Friendship
• Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that
  never tires, a touch that never hurts.
• - Charles Dickens

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Reflection 31Wednesday 10/15/08

• Success
• Eighty percent of success is just showing up.
• - Woody Allen

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Reflection 32Tuesday 11/4/08

• The Life of the Mind
• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the
  lighting of a fire.
• - William Butler Yeats

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Reflection 33 Wednesday 11/5/08

• Proverbial Wisdom
• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a
  single step.
• Chinese proverb

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Reflection 34Thursday 11/6/08

• Life and Death
• The best and safest thing is to keep a balance
  in your life, acknowledge the great powers around
  us and in us. If you can do that, and live that
  way, you are really a wise man.
• - Euripides

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Reflection 35Friday 11/7/08

• Love and Friendship
• Few men have the natural strength to honour a
  friends success without envy.
• - Aeschylus

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Reflection 36Monday 11/10/08

• Success
• If it be now, tis not to come if it be not to
  come, it will be now if it be not now, yet it
  will come the readiness is all.
• - William Shakespeare

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Reflection 37Tuesday 11/11/08

• The Life of the Mind
• People demand freedom of speech to make up for
  the freedom of thought which they avoid.
• - Søren Kierkegaard

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Reflection 38 Wednesday 11/12/08

• Proverbial Wisdom
• The best armor is to keep out of range.
• Italian proverb

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Reflection 39Thursday 11/13/08

• Life and Death
• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you
  want to test a mans character, give him power.
• - Abraham Lincoln

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Reflection 40Friday 11/14/08

• Love and Friendship
• Goodness does not consist in greatness, but
  greatness in goodness.
• - Athenaeus

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Reflection 41Monday 11/17/08

• Success
• Measure twice, cut once.
• - Craftsmans aphorism

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Reflection 42Tuesday 11/18/08

• The Life of the Mind
• The test and the use of mans education is that
  he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
• - Jacques Martin Barzun

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Reflection 43 Wednesday 11/19/08

• Proverbial Wisdom
• When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion.
• Ethiopian proverb