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Sun Jan 01, 2006 -

UNSAFE ADVENTURES -

The story in the entry immediately preceding this one about the teenager, Farris Hassan, inevitably reminded me of the movie The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, based on a novel by Muriel Spark and starring Maggie Smith.

If you have never seen this movie, you're missing an outstanding film.

Here are some of the more
memorable quotes from it:

"Little gairls! I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life."

"Deep in most of us is the potential for greatness or the potential to inspire greatness."

"Safety does not come first. Goodness, truth, and beauty come first."

+ Discuss among yourselves.

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