"Our children must never lose their zeal for building a better world."

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Source : Mary McLeod Bethune, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith (2001). “Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents”, p.61, Indiana University Press

Mary McLeod Bethune

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“There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the STORY of our lives better.”

Source : Interview with Adrian Comeau, "I Am Other People" series, www.asofterworld.com.
“Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradoxâ€”the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .”
“Love is giving someone everything on your plate; saying to them that you are full when you aren't. I could be better at that. I'm pretty good at giving, but I don't say, "I'm full." My wife does that all the time with many things, and it's why I love her.”
“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker”
“At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.”
“I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes.”
“So wake me up when it's all over When I'm wiser and I'm older All this time I was finding myself And I didn't know I was lost”

Source : Song: Wake Me Up, Album: Lift Your Spirit, 2013
“Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration.”

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