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Nelson Mandela Political Leader

Children

"At the southern tip of the continent, a rich reward is in the making, an invaluable gift is in the preparation, for those who suffered in the name of all humanity when they sacrificed everything - for liberty, peace, human dignity and human fulfillment. The value of our shared reward will and must be measured by the joyful peace which will triumph, because of the common humanity that bonds both black and white into one human race, will have said to each one of us that we shall all live like the children of paradise."

Children Black And White Common Humanity

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Nelson Mandela Political Leader

Children

"I love playing and chatting with children...feed ing and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life."

Children Stories Bed

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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author

Children

"As children, Siddhartha and Jesus both realized that life is filled with suffering. The Buddha became aware at an early age that suffering is pervasive. Jesus must have had the same kind of insight, because they both made every effort to offer a way out. We, too, must learn to live in ways that reduce the world's suffering."

Children Life Jesus

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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author

Children

"It is difficult to explain to children in the "overdeveloped" nations that not all children in the world have such beautiful and nourishing food. Awareness of this fact alone can help us overcome many of our own psychological pains. Eventually our contemplation can help us see how to assist those who need our help so much."

Children Beautiful Peace

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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author

Children

"I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking."

Children Book Teaching

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor

Children

"If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it."

Children Care Reason

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor

Children

"Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the one that make plants and children? Go deeper."

Thinking Children Plant

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor

Children

"If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons."

Children Two Moving

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor

Children

"What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How does my ruling part stand affected? And whose soul have I now? That of a child, or a young man, or a feeble woman, or of a tyrant, of cattle or wild beasts."

Men Children Tyrants

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor

Children

"Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?"

Children Age Youth

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