Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.

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Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different.

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With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised. - Adam Sandler

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So frequently we mistakenly believe that our children need more things, when in reality their silent pleadings are simply for more of our time.

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I'm only seven, although I died In Hiroshima long ago, I'm seven now as I was then - When children die, they do not grow.

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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. - Arthur Ashe

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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

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The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other's praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher, they must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!

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There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. — Nelson Mandela

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