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I cannot tell schools that we need to give them another rule when we have worked so diligently to reduce the number of rules that are here.


Joyce Karon

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JAMES JOYCE The will is never free -- it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in ...
JOYCE CARY For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spiri...
JOYCE CARY An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavi...
JOYCE BROTHERS There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable...
JOYCE BROTHERS Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can -- and surely will at times -- fail. I think w...
JOYCE BROTHERS I THINK that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest <...
JOYCE KILMER Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted pers...
JOYCE BROTHERS Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
JOYCE BROTHERS The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the p...
JOYCE BROTHERS God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would den...
JOYCE CARY Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The h...
JOYCE BROTHERS Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
JOYCE BROTHERS When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respec...
JAMES JOYCE What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put...
JAMES JOYCE A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
JOYCE CAREY You cannot eat your cake and have it.
JAMES JOYCE Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.
JOYCE GRENFELL If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should se...
JOYCE BROTHERS Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted per...
JOYCE BROTHERS ...your mom calls you up every other day to beg you to get a real job so she can hold her head up a...
JOYCE PARK The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork...
JAMES JOYCE I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday o...
JAMES JOYCE A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE I am strong, but I am tired, Stephen, tired of always having to be the strong one, of always having ...
BRENDA JOYCE Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.
JOYCE MEYER