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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person.
It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement.
Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves.
To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.
Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.
Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That's just crazy.
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.
I feel an autumnal Saturday, no matter how beautiful, is wasted if it doesn't find me sitting in on a football game.
I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they cant feel anymore.
We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it is false.
The greatest gift that you can give another person is to gracefully receive whatever it is that they want to give us.
Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
The more we know about how we lost our spontaneous wonder and creativity, the more we can find ways to get them back.
I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they can't feel anymore.
Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life.
For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.
I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
Along with filters on computers and a lock on affections, remember that the only real control in life is self-control.
As a child I was not allowed to express my feelings, so I had to go back through therapy and express the child's pain.
The Infinite has to be a relative concept. Go any distance: an infinite space means that there is more to be explored.
Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics.
The last thing I want my robot to be is sarcastic. I want them to be pragmatic and reliable - just like my dishwasher.
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
The Crucifixion, Atonement, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ mark the beginning of a Christian Life, not the end of it.
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.
Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.
Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.
I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?
The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.
You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight tie with a tuxedo.
The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!
Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.
Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.
Trust in God. Hold on to His love. Know that one day the dawn will break brightly and all shadows of mortality will flee.
World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds
It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.