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Zilda Arns
Zilda Arns quotes
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“My family background was deeply Christian.”
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“If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.”
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“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
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“In my family, there were Kei and Minoru and then there were the rest. Everyone in my family is very opinionated and everyone tried to join the debate. But by the time my turn came, there was nothing left to say. I couldn't keep pace, so I looked to do my own things.”
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“I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.”
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“When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost.”
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“The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.”
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“I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.”
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“Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.”
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“On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.”
