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«We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.»

Author: E. D. Hirsch, Jr. | About: Ignorance | Keywords: breathe, cultural, foul, ignored, intercourse, literacy, oxygen, social intercourse, thin, thin air

«People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.»

Author: Thich Nhat Hanh (Activist, Monk, Writer) | Keywords: air, black, black eye, black people, blue, Blue Skies, blue sky, clouds, consider, curious, engaged, green, green earth, miracle, recognize, The Black, thin, thin air, walk-on, walking, white

«Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.»

Author: Herman Melville (Novelist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: observing, oysters, Thick and Thin, thinnest, thin air

«Vice President Cheney is also on vacation. He's in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. What better place for a guy who has had 4 heart attacks than a place with thin air, rugged hiking and all-beef dinners? Why don't they get some snow for him to shovel while he's out there, too?»

Author: Jay Leno (Comedian, Host) | Keywords: air hole, beef, beefing, beeves, Cheney, dinners, heart attack, heart attacks, hike, hiked, hiking, Jackson, Jackson Hole, rugged, shovel, shoveling, thin, thin air, vacation, vice president, Wyoming

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