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We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themse...

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Richard BrautiganA Confederate General from Big Sur / Dreaming of Babylon / The Hawkline Monster

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagi...

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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence,...

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A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of...

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They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorc...

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A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune...

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There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth.

Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man a...

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It's very interesting, if you look at a study that was done by the Brookings Institute back in 2009,...

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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, ...

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If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t im...

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I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all th...

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Whenever I date a guy, I think, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 ...

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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

I is a dreamblowing giant,” the BFG said. “(...) I is scuddling away to other places to blow dreams ...

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It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting littl...

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...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If y...

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Down vith children! Do them in!Boil their bones and fry their skin!Bish them, sqvish them, bash them...

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Children should never have baths,’ my grandmother said. ‘It's a dangerous habit.’‘I agree, Grandmamm...

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Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a len...

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There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.

Your children are not dead. They are just waiting until the world deserves them.

Gin a body meet a bodyComing thro' the rye,Gin a body kiss a body— Need a body cry?

Don't worry that children never listen to you worry that they are always watching you.

I know what I really want for Christmas.I want my childhood back.Nobody is going to give me that. I ...

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Robert FulghumAll I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

I have hope in children. In children and warriors. In children who fuck like children and warriors w...

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Roberto BolañoThe Last Interview and Other Conversations

Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them pr...

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We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names o...

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Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and ...

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If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be appre...

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We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in...

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Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and,...

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I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do that it'...

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Above all, we must be conscious of the primary pedagogical task, namely that we must first make some...

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The true teachers and educators are not those who have learned pedagogy as the science of dealing wi...

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When what we introduce into the children's world of ideas and feelings is in line with the direction...

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You cannot be an educator or a teacher without relating to children with full insight. Their urge to...

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And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, an...

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So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and...

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Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother you...

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My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says t...

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There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just ...

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I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it...

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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in...

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When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

Children get food shelter pocket money longholidays and love, all of it apparently free gratis, and ...

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She allowed history to leave her without trying to hold it back, the way children allow a grand para...

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Salman RushdieTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for o...

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Half of Syria's refugees are children, and we know what can happen to children who grow to adulthood...

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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.

We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we'v...

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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was...

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We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education the...

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Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soar...

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And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a ...

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Well, there is a piece of famous advice, grand advice even if it is German, to forget what you can't...

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Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first ...

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What do you do,' said Jean, 'with, ah, "ungifted" children when you have them?''Cherish them and rai...

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Scott LynchThe Republic of Thieves

I enjoy taking part in footballing events that are for social causes because, in my view, inspiring ...

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I wanna stay an eternal girlfriend. I want to have my boyfriend's children, but I don't think we nee...

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We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt...

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Sharon Kay PenmanThe Sunne in Splendour

Pirate Captain Jim"Walk the plank," says Pirate Jim"But Captain Jim, I cannot swim.""Then you must s...

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I cannot go to school today"Said little Peggy Ann McKay."I have the measles and the mumps,A gash, a ...

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I'm Reginald Clark, I'm afraid of the darkSo please do not close this book on me.

Around the house, my head deep in a pillowcase or the oven, my eyes focused on that supernatural nea...

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Around the house, my head deep in a pillowcase or the oven, my eyes focused on that supernatural nea...

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Around the house, my head deep in a pillowcase or the oven, my eyes focused on that supernatural nea...

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Around the house, my head deep in a pillowcase or the oven, my eyes focused on that supernatural nea...

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I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works th...

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Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: len...

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During my own gap year, I learned an invaluable lesson - that I was a lousy teacher. Even though the...

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Education -- whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people, or even ones...

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Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

I have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her life who...

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The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kil...

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