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“Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.”
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“I've always been the kind of person that if I take on anything professionally it means commitment to me, so you take it on if you can commit to it and if you know you can accommodate and give your best to it and that's what you do, and I have always done that throughout my life - before marriage, after marriage, before motherhood, after motherhood.”
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“Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.”
Source : 'The Universal Prayer' (1738)
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“Research has shown that people who volunteer often live longer.”
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“I live to inspire girls, volunteers, Girl Scout staff and alumni”
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“The work of volunteers impacts on all our lives, even if we are not aware of it.”
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“People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.”
Source : "Pay Someone to Name Your Child? How We Are Outsourcing Our Personal Affairs". Interview with Alyssa Figueroa, Don Hazen, www.alternet.org. August 13, 2012. 
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“When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.”
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“Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.”
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“Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.”
