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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:07:09 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Elizabeth Goudge]]>
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	    <![CDATA["As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in truth, that imagination is of value, that happy endings do, in fact, occur, and that the blue spring mist that make an ugly street look beautiful is just as real a thing as the street itself." -- Elizabeth Goudge]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9431-the-only-true-wisdom-is-in-knowing-you-know-nothing</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:07:47 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Socrates]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9431-the-only-true-wisdom-is-in-knowing-you-know-nothing]]>
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	    <![CDATA["The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." -- Socrates]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1668-there-is-neither-happiness-nor-misery-in-the-world-there</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:08:18 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Alexandre Dumas]]>
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	    <![CDATA["There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. 
&quot; Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope." -- Alexandre Dumas]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72361-any-fool-can-know-the-point-is-to-understand</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:08:24 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Albert Einstein]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72361-any-fool-can-know-the-point-is-to-understand]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Any fool can know. The point is to understand." -- Albert Einstein]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15983-angry-people-are-not-always-wise</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:08:50 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Jane Austen]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15983-angry-people-are-not-always-wise]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Angry people are not always wise." -- Jane Austen]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/66-so-many-books-so-little-time</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:09:08 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Frank Zappa]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/66-so-many-books-so-little-time]]>
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	    <![CDATA["So many books, so little time." -- Frank Zappa]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/17764-fairy-tales-are-more-than-true-not-because-they-tell</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:09:20 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Neil Gaiman]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/17764-fairy-tales-are-more-than-true-not-because-they-tell]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." -- Neil Gaiman]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/29276-the-truth-dumbledore-sighed-it-is-a-beautiful-and-terrible</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:09:39 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by J.K. Rowling]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/29276-the-truth-dumbledore-sighed-it-is-a-beautiful-and-terrible]]>
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	    <![CDATA["The truth.&quot; Dumbledore sighed. &quot;It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution." -- J.K. Rowling]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/12444-i-believe-in-everything-until-it-s-disproved-so-i-believe</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:09:58 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by John Lennon]]>
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	    <![CDATA["I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?" -- John Lennon]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8750-i-love-you-without-knowing-how-or-when-or-from</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:10:27 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Pablo Neruda]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8750-i-love-you-without-knowing-how-or-when-or-from]]>
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	    <![CDATA["I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close." -- Pablo Neruda]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/75671-the-virtuous-man-contents-himself-with-dreaming-that-which-the</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:11:19 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Sigmund Freud]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/75671-the-virtuous-man-contents-himself-with-dreaming-that-which-the]]>
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	    <![CDATA["The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in  actual life." -- Sigmund Freud]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/332940-why-should-i-keep-myself-so-safe-he-asked-her</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:11:46 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Gregory Maguire]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Why should I keep myself so safe?” he asked her, but he was almost asking himself. What is there in my life worth preserving? With a good wife back there in the mountains, serviceable as an old spoon, dry in the heart from having been scared of marriage since she was six? With three children so shy of their father, the Prince of the Arjikis, that they will hardly come near him? With a careworn clan moving here, moving there, going through th same disputes, herding the same herds, as thy have done for five hundred years? And me, with a shallow and undirected mind, no artfulness in word or habit, no especial kindness toward the world? What is there that makes my life worth preserving?

“I love you,” said Elphaba.

“So that’s that then, and that’s it,” he answered her and himself. “And I love you. So I promise to be careful." -- Gregory Maguire]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/577844-i-like-the-sound-of-words-but-i-don-t-ever</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:11:50 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Gregory Maguire]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/577844-i-like-the-sound-of-words-but-i-don-t-ever]]>
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	    <![CDATA["I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read." -- Gregory Maguire]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/396526-i-wouldn-t-mind-leaving-myself-behind-if-i-could-but</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:11:52 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Gregory Maguire]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/396526-i-wouldn-t-mind-leaving-myself-behind-if-i-could-but]]>
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	    <![CDATA["I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out." -- Gregory Maguire]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/537266-it-isn-t-hard-to-find-evil-in-this-world-evil</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:11:54 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Gregory Maguire]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/537266-it-isn-t-hard-to-find-evil-in-this-world-evil]]>
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	    <![CDATA["It isn't hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow." -- Gregory Maguire]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10942-to-the-person-in-the-bell-jar-blank-and-stopped</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2019 08:21:38 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Sylvia Plath]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10942-to-the-person-in-the-bell-jar-blank-and-stopped]]>
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	    <![CDATA["To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream." -- Sylvia Plath]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/484619-i-am-terrified-by-this-dark-thing-that-sleeps-in</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2019 08:21:43 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Sylvia Plath ]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/484619-i-am-terrified-by-this-dark-thing-that-sleeps-in]]>
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	    <![CDATA["I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me." -- Sylvia Plath ]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/214458-for-the-moon-never-beams-without-bringing-me-dreams-of</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2019 08:24:50 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Edgar Allan Poe]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/214458-for-the-moon-never-beams-without-bringing-me-dreams-of]]>
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	    <![CDATA["For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams 
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; 
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes 
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; 
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side 
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, 
In the sepulchre there by the sea, 
In her tomb by the sounding sea." -- Edgar Allan Poe]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/777-love-never-dies-a-natural-death-it-dies-because-we</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2019 08:25:43 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Anais Nin]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/777-love-never-dies-a-natural-death-it-dies-because-we]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings." -- Anais Nin]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10722-i-love-you-as-certain-dark-things-are-to-be</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2019 08:26:09 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Pablo Neruda]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10722-i-love-you-as-certain-dark-things-are-to-be]]>
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	    <![CDATA["I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, 
in secret, between the shadow and the soul." -- Pablo Neruda]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/392889-no-thief-however-skillful-can-rob-one-of-knowledge-and</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2019 08:27:48 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by L. Frank Baum]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/392889-no-thief-however-skillful-can-rob-one-of-knowledge-and]]>
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	    <![CDATA["No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire." -- L. Frank Baum]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/68927-the-greatest-enemy-of-knowledge-is-not-ignorance-it-is</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2019 08:28:02 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Daniel J. Boorstin]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/68927-the-greatest-enemy-of-knowledge-is-not-ignorance-it-is]]>
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	    <![CDATA["The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -- Daniel J. Boorstin]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/18831-the-possession-of-knowledge-does-not-kill-the-sense-of</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2019 08:28:16 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Anais Nin]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/18831-the-possession-of-knowledge-does-not-kill-the-sense-of]]>
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	    <![CDATA["The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery." -- Anais Nin]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/33865-it-takes-a-very-long-time-to-become-young</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2019 08:28:50 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Pablo Picasso]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/33865-it-takes-a-very-long-time-to-become-young]]>
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	    <![CDATA["It takes a very long time to become young." -- Pablo Picasso]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/103931-what-is-now-proved-was-once-only-imagined</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2019 08:29:08 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by William Blake]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/103931-what-is-now-proved-was-once-only-imagined]]>
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	    <![CDATA["What is now proved was once only imagined." -- William Blake]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/110824-curiosity-is-in-great-and-generous-minds-the-first-passion</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2019 19:30:04 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Samuel Johnson]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/110824-curiosity-is-in-great-and-generous-minds-the-first-passion]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last." -- Samuel Johnson]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/166029-the-mediocre-teacher-tells-the-good-teacher-explains-the-superior</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2019 19:30:12 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by William Arthur Ward]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/166029-the-mediocre-teacher-tells-the-good-teacher-explains-the-superior]]>
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	    <![CDATA["The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." -- William Arthur Ward]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2019 19:30:16 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Mother Teresa]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/663304-these-are-the-few-ways-we-can-practice-humility-to]]>
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	    <![CDATA["These are the few ways we can practice humility:

To speak as little as possible of one's self.

To mind one's own business.

Not to want to manage other people's affairs.

To avoid curiosity.

To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.

To pass over the mistakes of others.

To accept insults and injuries.

To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.

To be kind and gentle even under provocation.

Never to stand on one's dignity.

To choose always the hardest." -- Mother Teresa]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/31784-the-public-have-an-insatiable-curiosity-to-know-everything-except</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2019 19:30:25 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Oscar Wilde]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/31784-the-public-have-an-insatiable-curiosity-to-know-everything-except]]>
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	    <![CDATA["The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing." -- Oscar Wilde]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/282814-the-most-beautiful-thing-we-can-experience-is-the-mysterious</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2019 19:30:45 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Courtney add a quote by Albert Einstein]]>
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	    <![CDATA["The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness." -- Albert Einstein]]>
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