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It's never a question of skin pigmentation. It's never a question of just culture or sexual orientation or civilization. It's what kind of human being you're going to choose to be from your mama's womb to the tomb and what kind of legacy will you leave. Cornel West

Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs in society; the old language allows you to keep your sense of 'who you are.' It preserves your identity. With two languages, you have the best of both worlds. David Crystal

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All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism. Geoff Mulgan

Collective Narcissism Nationalism Kind Understood

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. Horace Mann

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Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. Horace Mann

Nothing Others Ourselves Doing Undoing

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. Horace Mann

Education Safety Political Our Only Outside Ark

Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life. Maria Montessori

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If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic. Maria Montessori

Fault Logical Ways Logic Almighty Limitations Human

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. Miguel de Unamuno

Art Embodies Sensations Meaning Enhanced

Our memories are our own, and we cannot blame anything or anyone in the past for any pain dwelling there. If we open the door to them or keep hashing over past incidents in our minds, we have only ourselves to blame. Mother Angelica

I am not like a pebble on the beach - a grain of sand on the seashore or just one of millions of human beings past, present and future. No, I am a unique human being loved by God as if I were an only child - the only fruit of his creative powers. Mother Angelica

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This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault. Robert M. Hutchins

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Well, I think having your kids see you role model behavior of dignity when it's hard, when you're upset, when you want to confront somebody but you don't want to and you're nervous about it, when you are having moments where abuse of power is coming on to you. I think it's really important for kids to see how you handle that. Rosalind Wiseman

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Life hands us a lot of hard choices, and other people can help us more than we might realize. We often think we should make important decisions using just our own internal resources. What are the pros and cons? What does my gut tell me? But often we have friends and family who know us in ways we don't know ourselves. Sheena Iyengar

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Choice is more than picking 'x' over 'y.' It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and the uplifting from the trivial and the disheartening. It is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow. Sheena Iyengar

There's no destination. The journey is all that there is, and it can be very, very joyful. Srikumar Rao

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Man is a messenger who forgot the message. Abraham Joshua Heschel

Man Message Messenger Forgot Who

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. Abraham Joshua Heschel

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When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children. Albert Shanker

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