Grade 5 - Matt Kimber » Thought for the Day http://istianjinelearning.org/mattkimber Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers. - Anonymous Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:17:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://istianjinelearning.org/?v=3.4.1 Thought for the Day http://istianjinelearning.org/mattkimber/2011/01/28/thought-for-the-day/ http://istianjinelearning.org/mattkimber/2011/01/28/thought-for-the-day/#comments Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:30:07 +0000 Matt Kimber http://istianjinelearning.org/mattkimber/?p=338 Congratulations to the student council and all students for Wednesday’s successful Fundraiser.  2845.18RMB was raised to support Bundaberg Elementary School.

An excellent and thoughtful audio slide show from the Guardian Newspaper describing Chinese peoples annual pilgrimage home for Chinese New Year. It certainly makes you feel how lucky we are.

Train brings the strain in China

Thousands of passengers wait for trains and tickets at a railway station in Guangzhou

Audio slideshow: Millions throng China’s railway system as they try to get home for lunar new year

Motivational

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo (1802 – 1885), ‘Histoire d’un crime,’ 1852

Funny

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

Noel Coward (1899 – 1973)

Thoughtful

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680), Maximes (1678)

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