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"A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward."
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"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."
"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
"I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country."
"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."
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"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."
"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."
"Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language."
"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 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."
"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."
"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."
"It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies."
"If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it."
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