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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they dare not look back.

You are who you are, and you cannot be otherwise. Pretending is for children. You were born Cogline and that is who you will always be.

"The human heart's desire for a particular valuable object can be conquered, but its need to have some such object is unconquerable."

"If your success is more than just success to you-if it is the measure of your value and worth-then accomplishment in one limited are of life will make you believe you have expertise in all areas."

Well, Keller knows how to hit hard.

You can manage it, escape it, or grow with it. Pain, I mean. But you can't forget it. Even if you could, you would lose the strength it gave you. There is always strength in pain. It's small and it's hidden, but it's always there.

Developmental processes do not coincidence with learning processes. Rather, the developmental process lags behind the learning process, this sequence results in proximal zones of development.

"The traditional view [is] that at the moment a child assimilated the meaning of a word, or masters an operation such as addition or written language, her developmental processes are basically completed. In fact, they have only just begun."

"Your responsibilities are sometimes given you without choice, without consent."

"Evil left to itself...does not simply perish; it thrives. Evil contained is not evil destroyed. It nourishes itself, grows within its confinement, swells and rages until it works loose, and then...then it runs free."

...choices and their social meanings."

...to establish solidarity among local people. but this does not mean that they are either rejecting conventional gender or sexual norms or trying to express masculinity. The meanings of ore and boku are, we see, highly context-dependent. In like manner...only a close examination of language use in real contexts enables us to fully understand the complex and dynamic relationship between specific linguistic...

...to reject traditional femininity, or to be nonconformist, bur they are not indexing masculinity. Women at lesbian bars may use ore to establish solidarity with the interlocutor, while at the same time rejecting the dominant gender and sexual norms, but again their use of ore does not index masculinity. Farm women in rural areas of Tohoku may use ore regularly...as part of their regional dialect, which can serve...