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More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I…
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We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do…
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What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe.…
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Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of…
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I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
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The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is…
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If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand…
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As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are…
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Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value…
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Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image…
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So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge…
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Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today…
— Marcus Aurelius
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His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable…
— Aberjhani
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For many, many years, I was always whipping up things in order to keep myself busy and moving ever forward and saying,…
— Jane Lynch
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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
— Oscar Wilde
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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or…
— Edward Hoagland
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No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice…
— Stanley Ellin
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He is a great leader by example. Someone whom I have always admired for his ability to remain balanced and have the…
— Rahul Dravid
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A compassionate heart still feels anger, greed, jealousy, and other such emotions. But it accepts them for what they are with equanimity,…
— Stephen Batchelor
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What I’ve learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.
— Goldie Hawn
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Every day I strive to get to a place where I'm not effected by the external world, and I don't use the…
— Laurel Holloman
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The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner…
— William James
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When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer…
— Marcus Aurelius
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