"We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer â€˜Tomorrow,â€™ his name is today."

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Source : "His Name is Today". Poem by Gabriela Mistral, mid 1900s.

Gabriela Mistral

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“When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.”
“Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present against the backdrop of the past, within a frame of perception that is so familiar, so safe that is is terrifying to risk changing it even when we know our perceptions are distorted, limited, constricted by that old view.”
“I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.”
“There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does”

Source : Dean Smith, John Kilgo, Sally Jenkins (2000). “A Coach's Life: My 40 Years in College Basketball”, p.206, Random House
“Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.”
“The thing about the truth is that it exists outside of belief. Even if nobody believes it, that thing is still true.”
“You can be vegetarian and eat fish. Its your choice, just say: I am what I am. There are no hardcore divisions anymore.”
“I got exposed to so many different cultures and people.”

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