John Ciardi

Puzzles

• There is nothing wrong with ___ in moderation.
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• What we need most to know about public servants is the identity of their ___.
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• A ___ is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to John Ciardi?

  • → I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
  • → Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
  • → You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
  • → Assassins!
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to John Ciardi.

  • → Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
  • → When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.
  • → Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
  • → Good leaders must first become good servants.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to John Ciardi.

  • → The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
  • → Communism is like one big phone company.
  • → Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
  • → Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
  
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