Universal education is not only a moral imperative, but an economic necessity to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you as you are to them.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you as you are to them.

In God's family there are no outsiders no enemies.

In God's family there are no outsiders no enemies.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the mos

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

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    Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.

    Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.

    Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

    Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

    Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

    Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

    Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

    Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

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