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- Service is what life is all about.
- When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or…
- So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and…
- Let all children come unto me.
- So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.
- I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help...
- I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had…
- If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part…
- To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything…
- If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide