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memorial-day men forever
We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its interests in time of need. In particular, we are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free. Ronald Reagan
memorial-day strong sight
Words are even more feeble on this Memorial Day, for the sight before us is that of a strong and good nation that stands in silence and remembers those who were loved and who, in return, loved their countrymen enough to die for them.
memorial-day war military
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
memorial-day sacrifice giving
The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we - in a less final, less heroic way - be willing to give of ourselves.
memorial-day children islands
I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to tour the fort and wander through it. And all of that time, I never knew anything about the presence of black soldiers on the island. And so, for me, this was a way of trying to tell another history, a lost or a forgotten or a little-known history about these black soldiers who played an important part in American history.” Trethewey said. Coincidentally, she was born “exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866. Natasha Trethewey
memorial-day freedom 4th-of-july
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. Franklin D. Roosevelt
memorial-day war order
One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage Niccolo Machiavelli
memorial-day courage fear
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. Publilius Syrus
memorial-day men land
And I'm proud to be an American, Where at least I know I'm free, And I won't forget the men who died, Who gave that right to me And I'll proudly stand up next to him to defend her still today, Cuz there aint no doubt I love this land, God bless the USA Lee Greenwood
children finds himself useless
I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes. Jason Statham
children coming few helping kids program reading shelter
Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot. Kerry Nelson
children city stop streets teach throwing
I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting. Britt Ekland
children compared cost couple elderly family financial four good home keeping minimal replace stay town
Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.
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All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences. Tony Buzan
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It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance. Sugata Mitra
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In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.
children inclined less standing
If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.
children few reach remote supplies villages
There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need. Ann Veneman
islands boat
Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island. Napoleon Hill
islands intellectual culture
I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me. Orhan Pamuk
islands
When you're on a boat, you're going to little islands and stuff. It's not a partying kind of thing. Jeff Greene
islands insanity insane
But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity. Nellie Bly
islands insane asylums
The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.
islands borders wandering-around
From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island. Julian Baggini
islands doe kind
But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing. Muhammad Iqbal
islands temptation knows
That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it. Kathy Griffin
islands greek
Id like to live in the Greek islands Paul Wesley