"Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around."

-- Arne Duncan

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“I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.”

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“The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness of the letter. Â In a society where everything is fast, it's like going out in the country and looking up at the stars.”
“When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.”
“There they were sitting at the bar, these two Luscious babes, and they were Siamese twins.”
“I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though a few of the verses that I've written, yes, I think they are truly poems.”
“I was sitting in this small coffee shop a couple days ago and I saw this old man sitting at a table across from me. He looked so lonely, so sad. I was too, but it suddenly occurred to me that some people go through their whole lives never being loved or loving as deeply as I love you. There's always going to be the chance that I could lose you in this lifetime. There's nothing any of us can do about the possibility of loss. But in that moment, I decided that I was more interested in focusing on the great privilege I've been given in having you at all. Ch. 32”
“I'm in a period of growth and expansion. I'm taking long, hard looks at the world and what's happening in it, analyzing and thinking. I'm trying to become acquainted with the universe - with the part of it I occupy - and trying to settle, for myself, what my relationship with it is.”
“Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relations with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first-line attention. In this regard we could learn much from the Japanese. We must reinvest in the human side of management.”

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