"As your older brother, it's my sacred duty to save you from yourself." She brings her fists down on the table, making all the dinner plates jump. "The ONLY reason you're fifteen minutes older than me is because you cut in front of the line, as usual!"

-- Neal Shusterman

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“Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.”
“Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops.”

Source : "The World Changers" by Bruce Bliven, (p. 171), 1965.
“High school is a really strange time - you're not a kid, you're not an adult. You're about to be an adult, you're going to have to make some really intense decisions. It's a really pivotal time to have as much self-confidence as you possibly can. Even if that means you have one friend who supports you completely.”
“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.”
“Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings more satisfaction in the end.”
“I just find Bobby Kennedy's short campaign for president so inspiring because his rhetoric identified what America can be like if we care about each other.”

Source : "Inspiring a Mindful Nation". Interview with Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2012.
“The quality of a society depends on its capacity to produce eminent personalities.”

Source : Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora (1987). “Egalitarian Envy: The Political Foundations of Social Justice”, New York : Paragon House
“It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were not religion inculcated in their minds, they would remain so.”

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