"I am writing this during my lunch period,……" — Bel Kaufman
"I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping."
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Bel Kaufman
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17 Quotes by Bel Kaufman
Bel Kaufman has 17 quotes on this site.
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Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
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When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months'…
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People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you…
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I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re…
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Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the…
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Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don't have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel…
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The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today?
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I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe
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More Clerical Quotes
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by…
— Noam Chomsky
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So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar…
— Tori Amos
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A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a…
— William Hazlitt
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Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.
— Roger Mahony
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London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the…
— Nick Cohen
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My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the…
— J. C. R. Licklider
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If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget.…
— Ken Robinson
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You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles…
— Richard de Bury
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It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper…
— Robert Farrar Capon
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Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the…
— Christopher Hitchens
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To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.
— Albert Einstein
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