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Akeelah and the Bee

2006

A young girl from South Los Angeles tries to make it to the National Spelling Bee.

112 min

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FindCenter Quotes ImageI have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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FindCenter Quotes ImageDo not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

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C. S. Lewis
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Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet

Joan Halifax has enriched thousands of lives around the world through her work as a humanitarian, a social activist, an anthropologist, and a Buddhist teacher.

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Joan Halifax, Rebecca Solnit (foreword)
2019
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Courage