There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela
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- Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
- I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
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