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I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.


Ellen Ochoa

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ELLEN DEGENERES When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing ...
ELLEN KEY Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find...
ELLEN DEGENERES I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beauti...
ELLEN DEGENERES At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should nev...
ELLEN KEY I love 'E.R.' and I'm not ashamed to admit it. It makes me know I did not waste my life ...
ELLEN GILCHRIST Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
ELLEN KEY The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future...
ELLEN KEY The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the i...
ELLEN KEY Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the confli...
ELLEN KEY It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their ...
ELLEN KEY Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.
ELLEN KEY The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rej...
ELLEN KEY In every new generation, the impulses supposed to have been rooted out by discipline in the child br...
ELLEN KEY Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
ELLEN KEY It is not a dream that someday, nations will be able to settle their difficulties without war, just ...
ELLEN KEY Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish ...
ELLEN KEY The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in a...
ELLEN KEY Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is i...
ELLEN KEY On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between...
ELLEN KEY When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
ELLEN KEY The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.
ELLEN KEY Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others...
ELLEN KEY The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
ELLEN KEY Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
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