"If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is grand opera."
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"If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else."
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"There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand."
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"I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child."
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"Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves."
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"In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck."
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"The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers."
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"I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television."
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"A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live."
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"It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]"
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"A little child born yesterday A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed."
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"Women should remain at home, sit still, and bear children."
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"To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics."
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"I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating."
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"I wish that we could look into each other's faces, in each other's eyes, and see our own selves. I hope that the children have not been so scarred by their upbringing that they only think fear when they see someone else who looks separate from them."
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"Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them."
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"There is a place in you that you must keep inviolate, a place that you must keep clean. A place where you say to any intruder, "Back up, don't you know I'm a child of God."
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"I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet."
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"I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me."
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"It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity."
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