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The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature. Maria Montessori

Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading. Maria Montessori

Teacher Travel Science Natural Passion Single Reading Guided Insect Pupils Introduce Varied Lead Thus Most Limit Geography Go Been Subjects Child Any Short Stories Natural Science Teach Use Moment Her Started

Family life is the backbone of mankind, and that life is dependent upon mutual giving, sharing, and receiving from each other. It entails the proper use of each other's successes and failures for mutual up-building. Mother Angelica

Life Family Giving Other Backbone Entails Mutual Proper Sharing Failures Family Life Dependent Mankind Successes Use Each Receiving

Neighbors are competitors instead of partners, suspicious instead of trustful, indifferent instead of helpful, cold instead of loving, greedy instead of generous. We no longer consider ourselves living in neighborhoods, but only as living next to 'hoods.' Mother Angelica

Greedy Living Cold Consider Neighborhoods Neighbors Ourselves Indifferent Only Instead Generous Longer Partners Suspicious Loving Next Helpful Competitors

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. Paulo Freire

Conflict Side Neutral Powerful Between Powerless Hands Means Washing

As we get older, we get better at choosing in ways that will make us happy. We do a better job at picking activities that make us happy, and at spending time with people who make us happy. We're also better at letting things go. Sheena Iyengar

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third. Timothy Leary

Memory Three Side Long-Term Effects Forget Acid Short-Term Enhanced Third

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light. Abraham Joshua Heschel

God Logical Darkness Light Assumptions Immediate Insight Something He Hypothesis Self-Evident Sought Derived Reason

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. Amos Bronson Alcott

Ignorance Malady Ignorant

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity. Anna Julia Cooper

Freedom Humanity Cause Party Birthright Kind Very Human Race

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back. Bill Nye

Future You Science Key Holding Believe Everybody Back Our Then

The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food. Dean Ornish

Food Water Community Air Primal Connection Fundamental Need

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. John W. Gardner

Great Opportunities Problems Faced Disguised Series Brilliantly

Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests. Ken Robinson

Learning Minds Databases Souls Tests Happens

The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded. Maria Montessori

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood. Mary McLeod Bethune

Character Worth Must True True Worth Womanhood Race Measured

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. Mary McLeod Bethune

Soul Diamond Invest Knows Human Might Who Rough Human Soul

There are many who are not guilty of doing anything wrong but very guilty of sins of omission - the things they neglect to do - the good things - the kind, thoughtful words, compassionate thoughts and hopeful attitudes they might have had towards their neighbor. Mother Angelica

Good Thoughts Good Things Words Omission Neglect Neighbor Guilty Thoughtful Kind Hopeful Had Wrong Towards Attitudes Doing Sins Very Anything Not Guilty Might Who Many Compassionate Things

The woman is a gentle, loving bond who encourages, consoles, builds, reconciles, and makes all things new and vibrant. The woman is strength in time of suffering, courageous in failure, intuitive in time of danger. A woman is ingenuous when all fails, resourceful in times of want, and a true helpmate for man. Mother Angelica

Time Strength Failure Man Woman Suffering Resourceful Danger Consoles All Things Intuitive True Fails New Courageous Gentle Makes Builds Encourages Times Vibrant Want Loving Who Things Bond

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out. Timothy Leary

Drop Out Drop-Out Tune Turn Turn-On

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Timothy Leary

History Generation Intelligence Dressed Dealing Got Go Brain Up Nowhere

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