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"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is."
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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."
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"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."


"Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility."


"Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage."


"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."


"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."


"No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious."


"Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum."
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