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Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

"Michael Gove proposes teaching foreign languages from age five" by Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Ted Toadvine (2007). “The Merleau-Ponty Reader”, p.174, Northwestern University Press

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

Derrick A. Bell (1992). “Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism”, p.150, Basic Books

If God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes.

Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.223

Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.

George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.97, Bantam