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Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

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What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

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Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.

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I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

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If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.

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You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

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If we truly believe in our public schools, then we have a moral responsibility to do better - to break the either-or mentality around school reform, and embrace a both-and mentality. Good schools will require both the structural reform and the resources necessary to prepare our kids for the future.

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For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

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No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.

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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

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People just want to know that they matter.

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To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

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But today, just a few years into the twenty-first century, we already find ourselves in a different and precarious position. As revolutions in communications and technology have broken down barriers across the world, it has given more power to both our competitors and our enemies.

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