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"Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart."
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"I learn by doing....the same thing over and over and over again countless times."

"Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all. It isn't the tunnel we pass through that matters, it's what emerges on the other side."

"He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind."

"On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!"

"Every mistake committed is a learning opportunity."

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."

"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned."

"Let them learn at school whatever they learn to pass the examinations, but at home let the education that you provide be the kind that widens their perceptions and takes away the germs of prejudices that infect them while they are out in the world."
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"Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields."

"Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves."

"On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut."

"The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong."

"I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian."

"Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities."

"But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ."

"It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working."
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