"A passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life...whether it is helping old people or children, or making cheese or growing earthworms."
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"Adults are just children sometimes. But evil, hurt children."
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"Although our emotions sometimes behave like spoiled, selfish children, unfortunately we cannot send them to their room or tell them to stop screaming."
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"What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity."
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"Much research in psychology has been more concerned with how large groups of people behave than about the particular ways in which each individual person thinks... too statistical. I find this disappointing because, in my view of the history of psychology, far more was learned, for example, when Jean Piaget spent several years observing the ways that three children developed, or when Sigmund Freud took several years to examine the thinking of a rather small number of patients."
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"As to freedom, it is cherished, it is hard to come by, it is hard to hang on to. But freedom without responsibility is chaos, so to those who push the idea that freedom would allow an individual to do anything, anywhere, at any time, I reject, your freedom ends where my ability to raise my family safely begins. So I would urge every American to vaccinate their children and I would reject any effort to stop vaccinations until someone can show me a scientific reason to do so."
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"It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be."
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"And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
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"Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well."
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"Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel."
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"Therefore, is thy brother a sinner? Then cover his sin and pray for him. Dost thou publish his sins, then truly thou art not a child of your merciful Father; for otherwise thou wouldst be also as he, merciful. It is certainly true that we cannot show as great mercy to our neighbor, as God has to us; but it is the true work of the devil that we do the very opposite of mercy, which is a sure sign that there is not a grain of mercy in us."
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"The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife and that you may learn to bear these troubles."
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"You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along."
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"I am the most ruthless, brutal champion ever. There is no one who can match me. I want your heart. I want to eat your children."
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"I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children."
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"Children make you want to start life over."
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"I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience."
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"Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature"
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"With a secret smile, not unlike that of a healthy child,he walked along, peacefully, quietly. He wore his gown and walked along exactly like the other monks, but his face and his step, his peaceful downward glance, his peaceful downward-hanging hand, and every finger of his hand spoke of peace, spoke of completeness, sought nothing, imitated nothing, reflected a continuous quiet, an unfading light, an invulnerable peace."
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"There is nothing I can't live without. I learned this attitude when I was a child."
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