2. Believe this! DO NOT BREAK THE CHAIN or you will have very bad luck. One school in King County broke the chain and got its old superintendent back. Need a New Superintendent Does your school need a new superintendent? If so, simply send a copy of this letter to six other schools which are tired of their superintendent. Then bundle up your superintendent and send him or her to the school at the top of the list. Add the name of your school to the bottom of the list. In one month you will receive 16,436 superintendents. One of them should be a dandy!
5. “ Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Martin Luther King Jr.
6. Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter. African Proverb
7. “ Ethics is the study of how best to live.” Nicholas D. Smith, Professor of Humanities Lewis & Clark College
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47. “Waste no time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.” Marcus Aurelius