"When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier."

-- Edmund Hillary

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“Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.”
“Throughout my childhood, I had served as an interpreter for my family. When I left home, I also left the Deaf community. I'd had enough of being a de facto intermediary and wanted to find my own identity. But, over time, I learned to embrace both cultures and find balance between them. I love my Deaf and CODA family and hope they would be proud to call me one of their own.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“The world is what you make of it, friend.Â If it doesnâ€™t fit, you make alterations.”
“If people believe that they are marrying out of love and free choice rather than out of duty, they are more likely to decide, if love should die, that the free choice to join together is no more significant than the free choice to part, and to look for love elsewhere; those married out of duty expect less love to begin with, and what duty has brought together, duty may keep together.”
“You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don't want to see the dog doing them.”
“My dad has always taught me these words: care and share.”
“Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.”
“I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality, the classroom is the place to start. Great teaching is about so much more than education; it is a daily fight for social justice.”

Source : John Dewey (1972). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.93, SIU Press

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