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“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“In the practice of tolerance, your enemy is the best teacher.” 14th Dalai Lama, Kindness, Clarity, and Insight
“For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.” Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
“The true knight of faith is a witness, never a teacher, and therein lies his deep humanity, which is worth a good deal more than this silly participation in others' weal and woe which is honored by the name of sympathy, whereas in fact it is...” Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

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