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“The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school.”

School Lying Vision Excellence Educational Pathways

Author:Terrence E. Deal

“Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.”

Men Way Mean States Reason Lying Choices Concerned Excellence Determine Determined Practicals Relative Moral Excellence

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.”

Ifs Men May Made Lying Desire Bed Comfortable Prison Excellence Bars Iron Feathers Fetters Prowess

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

“Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.”

Men World Want Art Stills Book Happiness Joy Lying Artist Time Lost Enjoy Sin Excellence Permanent Immortality Covered Butterfly Flood Monarchy Venice Sinking Great Book Dams Florence

Author:Romare Bearden

“Swift blazing flag of the regiment,Eagle with crest of red and gold,These men were born to drill and die.Point for them the virtue of slaughter,Make plain to them the excellence of killingAnd a field where a thousand corpses lie.”

Men Lying Dies Born Virtue Fields Thousand Red Gold Excellence Flags Eagles Corpses Slaughter Drills Blazing

Book:The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories

Source: The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories