Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life."
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Simone Elkeles
Author
"Does she realize she looks like a sunflower, ready to rain sunlight on all who look down upon her?"
Pablo Neruda
Poet, Diplomat
"He who does not travel, who does not read, who does not listen to music, who does not find grace in himself, she who does not find grace in herself, dies slowly."
Barack Obama
Politician
"Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail."
Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"What the hand does the mind remembers."
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"If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government."
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"Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people."
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"Everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things: something you did or something you didn't do."
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"The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does."
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"Let nothing Disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, Though all things pass, God does not change. Patience wins all things. But he lacks nothing who possesses God; For God alone suffices."
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"Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me."
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"It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action."
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"Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research."
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"We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ?"
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"To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me."
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"The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds."
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"Love does not see with the eyes, but with the soul."
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"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."
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"A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted."
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"Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness."
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"There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations"
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"Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?"
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"A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away"
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"Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't."
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"Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone."
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