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"For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously."
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"What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others."

"One is God himself, [but] for how long does that authority of God last? As long as he speaks the truth, practices non-violence, does not steal, practices celibacy and remains non-acquisitive " till then power of God will remain."

"Every animal is biologically designed by Nature to do wrong in return. It takes a human being to not do wrong in return."

"All humans are rogues. Cured only by death."

"Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?"
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"Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be."


"Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools."


"Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty."


"The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day."


"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap."


"If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it."


"The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed."
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