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Marian Wright Edelman

"You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be."

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"You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it."

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Amber Hurdle

"Life happens because of choices we make, if you want a better outcome; think before you create."

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"Compromise is a choice. As is the defence of one's self."

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Amber Hurdle

"Nearly everyday life leans over and says, 'Come on down!' But standing at the bottom looking up, it's finally dawned on me that it's not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it's the fact that I accepted them."

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"Why are you choosing to be unhappy, when you're created for happiness?"

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"But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years."

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Amber Hurdle

"A door must either be shut or open."

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"You have the power within you to choose a life of love and beauty or choose a life of misery and destruction. What you chose, that you will attract and that you will manifest."

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"Don't risk your life for those that doesn't love your life, lest you end up in regrets if not death."

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Amber Hurdle

"There is always a good choice and there is always a better choice. There is always the best choice and there is always a choice to choose. If only you would think of the summary of your life tomorrow today, you would yearn to live and leave a distinctive footprint and you would never stand for anything at all."

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"You really can change the world if you care enough."
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"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."
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"Education is a precondition to survival in America today."
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"We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him."
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"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time."
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"Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society."
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"Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts."
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"If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much."
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"Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?"
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