"Raising children should mean helping them to become what they already are in Godâ€™s eyes."

-- Eberhard Arnold

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“In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it's the one.”
“Unless our fundamental sacred connectedness with every being and thing is experienced deeply and enacted everywhere, religious, political, and other differences will go on creating intolerable conflict that can only increase the already dangerously high chances of our self-annihilation.”

Source : Andrew Harvey (2012). “Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action”, p.187, North Atlantic Books
“We are facing a flood tide of factors into our daily lives and the lives of our children that conspire against weight control, and for that matter, health, any single policy or program we use to turn the tide is like a single sandbag. You put down the sandbag on the banks of the river. You could ask the question: Have we held back the flood? A sandbag isn't designed to hold back the flood. A sandbag is designed to be part of a levy to hold back the flood. It doesn't matter if it's a good sandbag, maybe a perfectly good sandbag. By itself it can't fix the problem.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.”
“The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars”
“I never wanted to be a dancer. It's true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.”

Source : "What's the Best Way To Impress a Guy? Dancing with the Stars' Sexy Maksim Chmerkovskiy Spills the Secret!" by Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. April 30, 2012.
“A platform is something a candidate stands for and the voters fall for.”

Source : "How to Become President". Book by Gracie Allen, 1940.
“To be in Vogue has to mean something”

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