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Keith Murray Rapper, Musician
Children

"If you hand an adult a lump of clay, they're likely to respond by fashioning something representative out of the raw material. For the most part, they'll simply forge an object that signifies something "real" in the world, even if that something is as abstract as an emotion or an energy. A child, on the other hand, will just as often produce something totally without semiotic meaning, a shape or a mass that represents nothing that exists outside of their imagination. Or else, they'll eat it or throw it or ignore it, wholesale."

Children Real Hands
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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
Children

"I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity."

Mean Children Religious
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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
Children

"A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows."

Children Real Nurse
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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
Children

"No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor."

Children Ideas Clothes
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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
Children

"A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done."

Children Done Artistic
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Maria Montessori Educator, Physician
Children

"One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from a higher professional status ... What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher thus transformed? It is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

Children Spiritual Teacher
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George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
Children

"The Christianity that had come in my life as a child was all this idea that you're never going to see God. It's like hypocrisy, in a way."

Children Ideas Hypocrisy
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Lennox Lewis Professional Boxer
Children

"I was very aggressive as a child. At primary school in London my attitude was 'If you don't do what I say, I'll knowk you out', and I was eventually expelled for fighting."

Children School Attitude
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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
Children

"Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child."

Children Father Parenting
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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
Children

"All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating and tormenting themselves and one another. It was not this spring morning which they considered sacred and important, not the beauty of God's world, given to all creatures to enjoy - a beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony and to love."

Children Morning Cheating
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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
Children

"It is not easy to enter into the silence and reach beyond the many boisterous and demanding voices of our world and to discover there the small intimate voice saying: 'You are my Belived Child, on you my favor rests.'"

Children Voice Our World
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George Leonard Philosopher
Children

"History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a page in the daily press without learning the specific time, place, and name of evil. But perhaps the most pervasive evil of all rarely appears in the news. This evil, the waste of human potential, is particularly painful to recognize for it strikes our parents and children, our friends and brothers, ourselves."

Men Children Brother
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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
Children

"I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life."

Children Ambition Lonely
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George R. R. Martin Novelist, Screenwriter
Children

"Sometimes I think some of my fellow novelists who have not worked in television and film are very naive about this process. They get an offer and there's the dump truck full of money and they sign it, they cash the check and then they're not involved in the series. They may get invited to the premiere and they come out of the premiere looking like all of their children had just been gassed, with a stunned look on their face because everything has been changed."

Thinking Children Novelists
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George R. R. Martin Novelist, Screenwriter
Children

"An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?"

Children Kings Knights
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George Will Political Commentator, Author
Children

"If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not."

Children Law Immigration
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