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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

Citizens Demand Glorify Hesitant
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If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?

Life Mean My Life Read
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

About I Write People Want
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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

Book Books Child Children
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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

Adopted Attitude Children Dare
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I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.

Being Bright Cliff Considered
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I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

Acknowledge Being Being Smart Books
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When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

Roles Society Soldiers Tendency
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The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

Arena Cause Difficult Distant
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To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution

Citizen Country Fight Leaders Life
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We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.

Citizens Colors Country Dependent
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

Generation Invent Own Reasons
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

Believes Difficult Necessarily True
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I remember one time being told I could not play in a basketball game at the College of William and Mary because I was black, even though I was playing with a United States Army team.

Army Basketball Because Being
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I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

Happy Both Children Get
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I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

Approach Child Difference Going
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As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.

Black Color Cowboys Expand
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

Beginning Bits And Pieces Dozens Every
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.

Between Dealing Distinct Easily
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So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.

Advice Arm Children General
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

Head Live Never Stories
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My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.

Angels Brother Cause Death
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Away Ever Given Nothing
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Because Believe Christianity Else
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Cut Deserts Down Educator
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Christ Decay Despair Else
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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Balance Happiness Harmony Intensity
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We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.

Alone Also Begin Convinced
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When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Ambition Begins Ends Happiness
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Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Earth Event Every His
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The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

Contradictions God Life Me
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Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

Deepening Find Future Hope
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Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Christ Dry Eyes Feet
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October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

America Anything Begin Catalogue
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The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Biggest Human Little Settle
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Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Anything Anything Else Attachment Else
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The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.

Less Squeeze You Tighter
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Art Friendship Give Philosophy
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

Cell Darkness Diminish Glory
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
Aim Earth Heaven Neither
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Achievement Fails Failures Finger
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Noticed Often Original Originality
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Ahead Behind Better Kind
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

True Christianity False Importance
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Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

Always Direct Implement Keep
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When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.

World Christ Died Individually
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Walking Adult Come Fact
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

History Ineffective Largely Most
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Courage Every Form Point
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Expense Gratified Instinct Claim
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