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“Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life we were placed here to live. But in this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of Heaven.”

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Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all truants and dropouts, a failure of the educational system. Look at your truancy problem, and you're looking at your future prisoners. Put the money there.”

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Author:Wilbert Rideau

“Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.”

Wells School Names Parent Known Teacher Effects Serious Products Standards Police Punishment Violent Apathy Spouse Well Known Withdrawal Sullen Vandalism Truancy

Author:B. F. Skinner

“Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.”

Writing Looks Heart Said Fool Muse Writer's Block Truancy

Author:Philip Sidney

“Joy is the serious business of heaven.”

Inspirational Joy Heaven Marriage Serious Serious Business Truancy

Book:The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

“Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.”

Dream Flower Poetry Is Wheat Truancy

Author:Michael Joseph Oakeshott

“When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.”

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Author:Rudolf Nureyev

“One antidote for sexual truancy lies in simply teaching youth the wonder, the miracle, the reverence for the creation of life itself. Life is a divine creation. You don't take chances with creation.”

Life Is Lying Sex Chance Wonder Teaching Creation Youth Divine Miracle Reverence Take A Chance Antidote Truancy

Author:Sam Levenson

“I remember when I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted.”

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Author:Amy Klobuchar