"I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright."
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"There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era."
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"As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them."
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"The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second, the only difference between men and women is one of physical function- one begets, the other bears children. Apart from that, they both can and should perform the same functions - though men on a whole, perform them better and should receive the same education to enable them to do so; for in this way society will get the best value from both."
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"But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him."
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"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."
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"The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion."
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"From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle."
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"Who is going to be the first to face up to the need for self-restraint in the number of children brought into the world?"
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"Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told."
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"We are creators, and yet we naively play the role of "the created." We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator's image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential."
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"Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sat cross-legged on the floor one morning in pink pajamas, with bliss lighting her cheeks, I thought: Lucky is the world, to receive this grateful child. Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing."
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"I was born in the Midwest, where "salad" was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods."
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"Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment."
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"I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children."
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"I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has."
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"It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives."
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"We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves."
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"When adults wage war, children perish."
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"Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children."
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