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I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have…

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Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the…
I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.
School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull…
The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into…
The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will…
Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.
The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them…
This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now…
Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to…
Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by…
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months…
Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame…

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To find the gifts we have been given, we must pray and fast. Often Patriarchal blessings tell us the gifts we have… — Robert D. Hales
[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of… — Abraham Maslow
I urge you to continue your fraternal cooperation with one another in the spirit of the community of Christ's disciples, united in… — Pope Benedict XVI
With all the strength of my soul I urge you young people to approach the Communion table as often as you can.… — Pier Giorgio Frassati
Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful… — William Merritt Chase
Thus I urge you to go onto your greatness if you believe it is in you. Think deeply and separate what you… — Percy Cerutty
Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an… — J M Coetzee
As the young leaders of tomorrow, you have the passion and energy and commitment to make a difference. What I'd like to… — Ban Ki-moon
Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses,… — Stephen King
The things of God are understood by the Spirit of God. That Spirit is real. To those who have experienced its workings,… — Gordon B. Hinckley
If death were the end, then there is no God, and there are no realised masters - it is all a pack… — Paramahansa Yogananda
So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride - the temptation blithely… — Ronald Reagan

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