Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind. ― Luther Burbank

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Giving a child an education is by far one of the most important investments we can make.

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I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

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All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

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I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior. If you go through a weekly Monday through Friday, it's all there. It's in how people on the sitcoms and cop shows talk to each other. — Bill Cosby

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Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called ‘All the things that could go wrong.' — Marianne Williamson

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Remember who you are. Don't compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth.

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Children, who made your skin white? Was it not God? Who made mine black? Was it not the same God? Am I to blame, therefore, because my skin is black?...Does not God love coloured children as well as white children? And did not the same Saviour die to save the one as well as the other? ― Sojourner Truth

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The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy. ― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

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I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them. - Medgar Evers

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