"On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642"
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"Corporations don't have children. They don't have feelings or souls. They don't depend on uncontaminated water, clean air, or healthy food to survive. They are beholden to one thing - the bottom line."
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"When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People living in such a milieu could imagine that the impossibility of ever inviting an "opportunist", much less a "radical", was a thing that would last forever, like gas lamps and horse-drawn omnibuses. But similar to kaleidoscopes turning from time to time, society successively places in various ways elements which were thought to be immutable and creates a new composition."
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"What's done to the children is done to society."
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"This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?"
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"I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living."
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"When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."
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"I'm still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I've never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door."
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"Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs."
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"The child molester skipped breakfast, but said he'd grab a little something on the way to work."
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"The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going."
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"Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun."
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"The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything."
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"The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child."
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"There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease."
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"At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name."
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"With younger children the greatest reward is to be able to pass on to a new stage in each subject. It is a punishment to a young child not to be allowed to use the apparatus but to sit still and do nothing."
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"If the idea of the universe is presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than just arouse his interest, for it will create in him admiration and wonder, a feeling loftier than any interest and more satisfying."
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"A child in his earliest years, when he is only two or a little more, is capable of tremendous achievements simply through his unconscious power of absorption, though he is himself still immobile. After the age of three he is able to acquire a great number of concepts through his own efforts in exploring his surroundings. In this period he lays hold of things through his own activity and assimilates them into his mind."
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"What advice can we give to new mothers? Their children need to work at an interesting occupation: they should not be helped unnecessarily, nor interrupted, once they have begun to do something intelligent."
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