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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. Amos Bronson Alcott

Success Long Sweet Delayed Struggles Through Gotten Success Is Sweeter Many Defeats

It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Benjamin E. Mays

Stars Reach Disgrace

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him. Booker T. Washington

You Man Down Stay Him Hold

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams. Booker T. Washington

Dreams You Read Going Realize Hard

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward. Booker T. Washington

Man Reward Long Add Moral Proper Something He Well-Being Without Material Intellectual Left Place Which Who Lives

If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

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Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator. The dictator delivers opportunities for them to become rich, and they protect him from being overthrown. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

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Neofascism in the United States takes the form of big money, big banks, big corporations, tied to xenophobic scapegoating of the vulnerable, like Mexicans and Muslims and women and black folk, and militaristic policies abroad, with strongman, charismatic, autocratic personality, and that's what Donald Trump is. Cornel West

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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. D. Elton Trueblood

Faith Trust Reservation Proof Without Belief

God can only do for you what He can do through you. Eric Butterworth

God You Only Through He

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned. John Holt

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Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. John W. Gardner

Education Today People Plants Giving Own Young Too Ineffective Often Young People Them Cut Much Should Teaching Grow Flowers

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive. John W. Gardner

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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting. Jon Kabat-Zinn

You Pay Pay Attention Boredom Unbelievably Attention Gets Interesting

Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never. Karl G. Maeser

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Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel they're good at. That may be because they underestimate their talents or haven't yet put the work in to develop them. Ken Robinson

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? Lucy Maud Montgomery

Wicked Easy Knowing Without

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. Maria Montessori

Education Saying Giving Power We Cannot Through Observation Observe Observers Senses Cannot Them Procured Create Means

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. Maria Montessori

Good Good And Evil Evil First Must Idea Between Child Difference Acquire

Simply by starting to cook again, you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As soon as you cook, you start thinking about ingredients. You start thinking about plants and animals and not the microwave. And you will find that your diet, just by that one simple act, that is greatly improved. Michael Pollan

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As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for 'better' jobs in the city. We emptied America's rural counties in order to supply workers to urban factories. Michael Pollan

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