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

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

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"And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things."

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"I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking."

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"Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical."

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"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."

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"My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys."

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"As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie."

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"Oh, you dear good father!" cried Mary, putting her hands round her father s neck, while he bent his head placidly, willing to be caressed. "I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world.""Nonsense, child; you ll think your husband better.""Impossible," said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone, "husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order."

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"It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings."

George Barr McCutcheon, American Novelist

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"My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize."

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"I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy."

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"A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward."

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"All real education is the architecture of the soul."

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

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"America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world."

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