"If you're extremely rich, and you have got children, my theory was, you give them enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing."
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"I am society’s child. This is how they made me and now I’m sayin’ what’s on my mind and they don’t want that. This is what you made me, America."
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"Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven."
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"The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's own place, One's own people, One's own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise- Into growth and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change."
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"I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud to as a child."
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"It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was."
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"Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence."
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"The child who concentrates is immensely happy"
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"Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity, and he will be free. We see no limit to what should be offered to the child, for his will be an immense field of chosen activity."
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"The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries."
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"The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of flowers."
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"Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others."
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"And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?"
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"People, even children, aren't really afraid of change. They're afraid of not being prepared for change."
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"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."
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"Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity."
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"I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence,' because I don't believe that I am non-violent. ... Right now, I would love to kill George Bush. I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die, the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life."
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"My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain is a living mechanism, not a machine. In case of breakdown, it can substitute one of its parts for the function of another. But it has its limitations. It is subject to inexorable change with the passage of time."
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"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."
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"There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson."
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