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Sometimes A Book Is Better Than It Ever Had A Right To Be Because Of The History The Reader Brings To The Reading And Because Of The Methods Educators Use To Bring A Particular Story Alive.

There Is No Jesus Without Judas, No Martin Luther King, Jr., Without The Klan; No Ali Without Joe Frazier; No Freedom Without Tyranny. No Wisdom Exists That Does Not Include Perspective. Relativity Is The Greatest Gift.

I Figure If Doc Is Right About The Time I Have Left,i Should Wrap Up My Adolescence In The Next Few Days, Get Into My Early Productive Stages About The Third Week Of School, Go Through My Midlife Crisis During Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday, Redouble My Efforts At Productivity And Think About My Legacy, Say, Easter, And Start Cashing In My 401(k)s A Couple Weeks Before Memorial Day.

...the Magnificent Seven Consisted Of One Swimmer Of Color, A Representative From Each Extreme Of The Educational Spectrum, A Muscle Man, A Giant, A Chameleon, And A One-legged Psychopath. When I Envision Us Walking Seven Abreast Through The Halls Of Cutter High, Decked Out In The Sacred Blue And Gold, My Heart Swells.

So You Didn’t Tell Me It Was A Messed-up Idea To Keep This All A Secret Because. . .” “because Experience Is The Only Teacher,” Hey-soos Says. “even If I Could Have Told You, It Would Have Been A Lecture. Why Do You Think Kids Don’t Listen To Their Parents, Or People Don’t Leave Churches And Do What The Preacher Tells Them? There’s Only One Thing That’s Universal.” “what’s That?” “the Truth.