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There are, no doubt, as many conceptualizations of the good life as there are lives that aspire to it, but surely one of the most important pathways to its achievement begins with the desire to seek what is good - for the self, for those we love, for 'our neighbor,' for our earth. Maryanne Wolf
Life Love Good Achievement Important Doubt Good Life Our Earth Those Neighbor No Doubt Seek Self Most Surely Begins The Most Important Aspire Many Lives Desire
The most basic definition of fluency is simply the ability to read text accurately and quickly. Maryanne Wolf
Fluency Definition Ability Simply Most Read Text Quickly Accurately Basic
In reading, we are both scientists and poets. Maryanne Wolf
Reading Both Poets Scientists
I don't want technology to replace teachers, but where there are no teachers, or the teachers are overwhelmed, it can be helpful. Maryanne Wolf
Technology Replace Overwhelmed Where Want Teachers Helpful
Skimming is fine for our emails, but it's not fine for some of the important forms of reading. Maryanne Wolf
Important Reading Our Emails Fine Some Forms
Inevitably, there will be many aspects of culture that would benefit from a more reflective or contemplative approach to them. Maryanne Wolf
Culture Will Approach Benefit Would More Contemplative Inevitably Reflective Them Aspects Many
Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust? Max Muller
Dust Worm Chrysalis Sin Makes Which Butterfly
I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her children, the young princes and princesses, and we played together, as if we had known each other for years. Max Muller
Me Together Kiss Young Other Gave Brought Castle Had Princes Princess Princesses Known Years Hand Children Again Then Each Her Played
And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast. Max Muller
Alone Dark Men Feeling All-Around Rises Feel Know Around Pass Left Forgotten Then Us Grows Right Utterly
What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature? Max Muller
Reality Light Reflection Fire Sun Though Only Divine Almost Like Without Glow Still Were Itself Might Ask Creator Creature
How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity! Max Muller
Beautiful Time Best Day Every Day Most Beautiful Lost Enjoy Every Thinking Day-To-Day Most Beautiful Things Without How May Eternity Mankind Things Last
It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all others. Max Muller
Me Heart World Others All The World More Had No-One Than Loved Who Found
Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child. Max Muller
Strangers Soon Learns Ceases Child
Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light. Max Muller
Time Me Soul Light First Sun Seemed Only My Soul Open Had Buds Empty First Time Understood Been Yes Lacking Poor Now
My mother was a courageous woman, and she had such tremendous love for life. She loved the natural world. She would wake us up in the middle of the night to go look at the moon. When I was a teenager, this was a source of great frustration because I wanted to sleep. Maya Soetoro-Ng
Life Love Great Woman Natural Frustration World Mother Moon Tremendous Teenager Would Had Look She Courageous Because Go Source Wake Up Middle Wanted Loved Us Natural World Night Sleep
The facts are simply that my brother was born in the United States at the Kapiolani Hospital for Women and Children in 1961. His birth certificate has been authenticated by a number of sources. Maya Soetoro-Ng
Women Birth Birth Certificate States Has-Been Brother Born Hospital Facts Simply Been His Sources Women And Children Children Certificate United United States Number
My mother would have enjoyed the idea that her name was being used to build bridges. She cared a great deal and was very thoughtful and passionate about education and young women. Maya Soetoro-Ng
Education Great Women Mother Great Deal Build Young Thoughtful Would About Idea Name She Deal Passionate Very Being Young Women Used Being Used Bridges Her Enjoyed Cared
I'm half white, half Asian. I think of myself as hybrid. People usually think I'm Latina when they meet me. That's what made me learn Spanish. Maya Soetoro-Ng
Myself Me People Made Half White Think Meet Latina Hybrid Learn Spanish Asian
We can do much to help our communities loosen their boundaries and begin to welcome a multitude of ways of being to make sure that individuals of mixed race, religion, or ethnicities don't feel the need to choose one or the other but see their layers as a gift, something that adds beauty. Maya Soetoro-Ng
Religion Welcome Gift Beauty Other Our Adds Ways See Something Layers Individuals Feel Boundaries Make Sure Loosen Mixed Begin Being Race Much Communities Choose Help Multitude Need
I ended up very American and very Indonesian and a little bit of a lot of things. Maya Soetoro-Ng
Bit Lot Up Very American Ended Little Little Bit Things
I don't think the White House has always reflected the textures and flavors of this country. Maya Soetoro-Ng
Country White White House Think House Always Reflected Textures Flavors
I think it's true we look forward to enormous amounts of information, but I think we would be better off if we thought about the kinds of wisdom and thoughtfulness that we need in order to handle the amount of information ahead. Maya Soetoro-Ng
Wisdom Better Thought Think Enormous Would Would-Be Kinds About Better Off True Look Off Handle Order Information Forward Amount Need
We can't afford to live in isolation, and we need to teach our kids that the things that they do not only matter to others far away but impact others who live far away, and there are ripples of effect. Maya Soetoro-Ng
Matter Isolation Live Others Our Kids Impact Ripples Only Effect Afford Far Far Away Teach Who Away Things Need
I think a lot about our globalized world, our global interconnectedness, and it really saddens me when I see people 'othering,' when I see people who are willing to live narrowly. Maya Soetoro-Ng
Me People World Live Think Our Willing See About Global Narrowly Lot Interconnectedness Really Who
It was as a mother that I needed my mother back, and I needed to conjure her anew and think about what she would have counselled and what she would have given. Maya Soetoro-Ng
Mother Think Back Would Anew About Given She Conjure Her Needed
I think you can have varied and seemingly contradictory depictions of a single person because we all have many facets and, in a way, many selves. Maya Soetoro-Ng
You Single Think Way Seemingly Facets Varied Because Single Person Selves Contradictory Person Many
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