"Each child born on earth Is a unique promise of God To God Himself."
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"Man's eternal question is:'Who is God?'God's immediate answer is:'My child, who else is God, if not you?"
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"We are all God's children. But world-peace-dreamers, world-peace-lovers and world-peace-servers are undoubtedly God's choicest children."
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"If we have a simple existence, we shall feel how happy and how fortunate we are. There are some people who are of the opinion that simplicity is almost tantamount to stupidity. But simplicity and stupidity are like the North Pole and the South Pole. One can be as simple as a child and, at the same time, one can have boundless knowledge, light and wisdom."
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"A woman has the greatest opportunity to provide the best outcome for a baby and its potentialities. Not only by having a conscious and definite will to form the child accordingly to the highest ideal she can conceive, but first and foremost having the aspiration to work on herself."
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"The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule."
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"You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen."
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"Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble."
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"No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.' -Rand"
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"In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different."
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"Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then."
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"I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive."
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"Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small and having a child's need for sleep."
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"Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child."
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"If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately."
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"A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able."
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"The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room."
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"Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces."
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"Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore."
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"How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do!"
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