America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Jane Addams
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  2. Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love–you know, things I don't care about anymore. - Lady Gaga

  3. I'm the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her. - Tom Leveen

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More Quotes By Jane Addams
  1. The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

  2. Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.

  3. True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.

  4. In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

  5. Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

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