"Art is the daughter of freedom."
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"Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given."
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"There are among us those that would criticize our Confederate ancestors. Would you allow a stranger to come into your house and criticize your little ones? I say it's not whether we should be ashamed of our fathers and mothers of the Old Confederacy. I say it's a question of whether they should be ashamed of us."
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"A child does not try to know the mother, it simply has faith in her. In the same way, having faith in the Divine is the source of the greatest strength."
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"Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation"
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"I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean."
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"It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of her head...and, of course, the ones in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and reflect 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word."
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"You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving."
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"When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born."
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"She became a very famous, very popular young girl. Before that, she was my daughter, but now I'm her father."
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"At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child."
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"With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis."
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"Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up."
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"When people hear my daughter and when they know about her wisdom and maturity, they think that her father must have been sitting with her and mentoring her. They think he would have spent a lot of time in bringing her up. They think he would have constructed her."
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"Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days."
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"War is the mother of everything."
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"All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them."
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"If there is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding. So there is a logic to natural things that is much superior to our own. Just as there is a dichotomy in law: 'innocent until proven guilty' as opposed to 'guilty until proven innocent', let me express my rule as follows: what Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise."
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"The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions."
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"To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice - I savored every minute of those years."
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