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Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.Wonder Book
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Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
Seller Inventory # J05Q-0531
- Title
- The Quotable Graduate
- Publisher
- The Lyons Press
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1585748021
- ISBN 13
- 9781585748020
--Edward Koch, Mayor of New York City, 1983 commencement address, Polytechnic Institute of New York, during which fire broke out briefly
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
--Albert Einstein
"Be as bold as the first man or woman to eat an oyster."
--Shirley Chisholm, politician, commencement address, Mount Holyoke College, 1981
"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards."
--Mark Twain
"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance."
--Sir Claus Moser (1922-), Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, England, Daily Telegraph, 1990
More than five million students graduate from high school or college each year, making commencement one of our most common rites of passage. Nearly every American knows someone who will graduate within the next twelve months. This collection of wise and witty statements about graduation--and education in general--offers food for thought to graduates and their families and friends alike. Culled from commencement speeches and from the writings and words of CEOs, theologians, astronauts, generals, authors, musicians, artists, actors, entrepreneurs, scientists, and psychologists, it presents diverse perspectives on the non-academic world that graduating students enter, and words of wisdom on what truly matters as one embarks on this new chapter in life. If you're stumped for an appropriate comment to make when offspring, sibling, or spouse receives a diploma, the kernels of inspiring ideas can be found in these pages. Those quoted include:
Albert Einstein
Margaret Mead
Plato
Mao Zedong
Sylvia Plath
George Bernard Shaw
Maria Montessori
Oscar Wilde
Ivan F. Boesky
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry David Thoreau
Anne Sullivan
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Kurt Vonnegut
John F. Kennedy
and more
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About the Author
JOHN ROSS, winner of a National Outdoor Book Award for Trout Unlimited's Guide to America's 100 Best Trout Streams, also writes about public relations and higher education and consults on strategic communication with colleges and universities. He lives in Upperville, Virginia.
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Wonder Book
Frederick, MD, U.S.A.
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With 3 stores less than 1 hour outside the DC/Metropolitan area (1 in Gaithersburg, 1 in Frederick and 1 in Hagerstown, MD), we have the largest selection of books in the tri-state area. Wonder Book and Video has been in business since 1980 and online since 1997. We have over 1 Million books for sale on our website and another 1 Million books for sale in our 3 locations. Items on Abe are not necessarily in stock at our retail locations. Please do not call the stores to place orders for Abe Books sales. We have a very active online inventory and as such, we can receive multiple orders for the same item. We fill those orders on a first come first serve basis, but will refund promptly any items that are out of stock. Since 1980 it has always been about the books. ALL kinds of books from 95 cent children's paperbacks to five figure rare and collectibles. A merging of the old and new is where we started, and it is where we are today. Our retail stores have always been places where a reader can rush in looking for a title needed for a term paper that is due the next day, or where bibliophiles can get lost "in the stacks" for as long as they wish. In 2002 USAToday recognized us as "1 of 10 Great Old Bookstores", and we have been featured in numerous other newspaper and TV stories including Washington Post and CSpan. Members ABAA, ILAB.…
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Wonder Book
Wonder Book and Video, 1550 Tilco Drive
Frederick, MD U.S.A. 21704
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