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For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost." "And old men?" "Of what they have not found."
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.
Think the best of each other, especially of those you say you love. Assume the good and doubt the bad.
It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.
I am a really impatient person who wants to see many issues fixed with solutions that don't yet exist.
The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don't fool with that.
Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given.
Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.
It's the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.
After an encounter with the living Son of the living God, nothing is ever again to be as it was before.
I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have.
I ask for a stonger and more devoted voice... a voice for good, a voice for the gospel, a voice for God.
All these feelings need to be felt. We need to stomp and storm; to sob and cry; to perspire and tremble.
All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive.
If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.
Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.
The race we are really in is the race against sin, and surely envy is one of the most universal of those.
It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.
Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.
The best teacher in the world is someone who loves what he or she does, and just loves it in front of you.
To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions.
I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.
My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.
I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.
One of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness.
Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.
What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?
I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.
No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.
When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.
Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.
So when a great man dies For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.
We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults.
This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person.
Elite colleges like Stanford are extremely inaccessible. They're failing in their mission to provide access.
Most cars are parked at any point in time; my estimate is that I use my car about three percent of the time.
Can we text twice as much while driving, without the guilt? Yes, we can, if only cars will drive themselves.
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.
HAPPINESS comes first by what comes into your head a long time before material BLESSINGS come into your hand.
Fatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity.