Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
-Henry David Thoreau
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The present contains all there is. It is holy ground.
-Alfred North Whitehead
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One volunteer is better than ten forced men.
-African proverb
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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Good advice usually works best when preceded by a bad scare.
-Al Batt
Are you usually willing to take advice? Or do you seem to need to learn everything by your own experience? [...]
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When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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On choice: we can afford it. We just can’t afford it and everything else.
-Peggy Kagan
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People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
-Joseph Fort Newton
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Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
-Lewis Mumford
I care more for that long age which I shall never see than for my own small share of time.
-Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero lived in ancient Rome about 2,100 years ago. We are part of the future “Long age” he speaks about.
Imagine Cicero coming to visit us [...]
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The great secret is not having bad manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manners for all human souls.
-George Bernard Shaw
If you followed Shaw’s advice, what message would you be conveying to “human souls”? What kinds of people might not approve or be pleased? Why? Write about a situation [...]
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Babies of all nations are alike until adults teach them.
-Mauree Applegate
A satirical song titled “You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught” has a similar theme. It says that children must learn to hate and fear anyone different from themselves.
Why do some people want their children to dislike or look down on other people?
Would our [...]
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