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GFF Alumnus Michelle Wang qualifies for the 2023 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair!

GFF Alumnus Michelle Wang qualifies for the 2023 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair!

Apr 10, 2023 | Where Are They Now? — 2023

We are excited to announce that Michelle Wang will participate in the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair to be held in Dallas, Texas on May 14-19, 2023.

GFF Alumnus Yoonseo Jung has been selected as concertmaster for the ILMEA All-State Orchestra

GFF Alumnus Yoonseo Jung has been selected as concertmaster for the ILMEA All-State Orchestra

Jan 16, 2023 | Where Are They Now? — 2023

We are proud to announce that GFF Alumnus Yoonseo Jung was selected as concertmaster for the Illinois Music Education Association (ILMEA) All-State Orchestra. The Illinois Music Education (All-State) Conference was held January 25-28, 2023, in Peoria, Illinois.

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Words of Wisdom

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

“All the resources we need are in the mind.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, October 1915

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”

— Khalil Gibran

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

— Winston Churchill

“Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.”

— Frank McCourt

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

— Aristotle

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Aristotle

“The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity.”

— Edmund Burke

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

— W. Clement Stone

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

— George Santayana

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

— Plutarch

“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

— Malcolm Forbes

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”

— Rene Descartes

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

— Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind.”

— Geraldine Brooks, March

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their
opinions, they cease to be mind.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nothing is at last sacred but the quality of your own mind.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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