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There's nothing quite like Harry Potter in publishing. It's No. 1. Apart from that, it is a true sociological phenomenon.


Maria Amor Calleja

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MARIA MONK Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
MARIA MONTESSORI The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an eve...
MARIA MONTESSORI When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had ...
MARIA CALLAS Thank you for giving myself back to me, now I am free
MARIA KOSZLER If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the m...
MARIA MONTESSORI The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies.
MARIA BROOKS If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno...
MARIA MONTESSORI The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within th...
MARIA MONTESSORI The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of anim...
MARIA MONTESSORI I suppose I could admire all these slow Seattle drivers for their safety-mindedness, consideration f...
MARIA SEMPLE I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil eith...
MARIA CALLAS Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man a...
MARIA MONTESSORI I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the s...
MARIA MONK I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm ...
MARIA SEMPLE The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me.
MARIA MONK I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has toug...
MARIA SHRIVER I do remember when it occurred to me the first time, when I got the idea of painting the way I feel ...
MARIA LASSNIG I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort,...
MARIA MITCHELL If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it...
MARIA BARTIROMO The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomen...
MARIA MONTESSORI As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.
MARIA MITCHELL All the movements of our body are not merely those dictated by impulse or weariness; they are the co...
MARIA MONTESSORI