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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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"Our character develops with endurance of every circumstance."

"You should not judge, you should understand."

"Conscience does make cowards of us all."

"We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language."

"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."

"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."

"It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies."
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